# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ernst-rudin
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:26:19.283Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ernst-rudin"
name: "Ernst Rüdin"
slug: "ernst-rudin"
description: "Ernst Rüdin was a Swiss psychiatrist, geneticist, eugenicist and Nazi, rising to prominence under Emil Kraepelin and assuming the directorship at the German Institute for Psychiatric Research in Munich. While he has been credited as a pioneer of psychiatric inheritance studies, he also argued for, designed, justified and funded the mass sterilization and clinical killing of adults and children."
tagline: "Swiss psychiatrist (1874-1952)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ernst_R%C3%BCdin.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Switzerland"
  isoCode: "CH"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1874-04-19"
deathDate: "1952-10-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.96
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.117354666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "ارنست رودين"
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    title: "Ernst Rüdin"
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    title: "Ernst Rüdin"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_R%C3%BCdin"
    title: "Ernst Rüdin"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_R%C3%BCdin"
    title: "Ernst Rüdin"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump