# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ernst-jentsch
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:06:18.219Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ernst-jentsch"
name: "Ernst Jentsch"
slug: "ernst-jentsch"
description: "Ernst Anton Jentsch (1867-1919) was a German psychiatrist. He authored works on psychology and pathology and is best known for his essay On the Psychology of the Uncanny (1906). However, he also authored texts on mood and the psychology of music. He is remembered for his influence on psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud who mentions the work of Jentsch in his essay \"The Uncanny\". Jentsch's work was also a great influence on the theory of the uncanny valley."
tagline: "German psychiatrist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jentsch_Ernst_Anton_1908.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1867-02-22"
deathDate: "1919"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             6.428571428571429
  historical:           7.417352
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  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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    title: "恩斯特·延奇"
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    title: "Ernst Jentsch"
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    title: "Йенч, Эрнст"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump