# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ernst-van-aaken
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:06:53.272Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ernst-van-aaken"
name: "Ernst van Aaken"
slug: "ernst-van-aaken"
description: "Ernst van Aaken was a German sports physician and athletics trainer. Van Aaken became known as the \"Running Doctor\" and was the founder of the training method called the Waldnieler Dauerlauf. He is generally recognized as the founder of the long slow distance method of endurance training."
tagline: "German athletics trainer (1910–1984)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d7/Ernst_van_Aaken.jpg/330px-Ernst_van_Aaken.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
birthDate: "1910"
deathDate: "1984-04-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.53
  momentum:             1.89873417721519
  historical:           5.479626666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_van_Aaken"
    title: "Ernst van Aaken"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%B3%D8%AA_%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "ارنست فان اكين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_van_Aaken"
    title: "Ernst van Aaken"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_van_Aaken"
    title: "Ernst van Aaken"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_van_Aaken"
    title: "Ernst van Aaken"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_van_Aaken"
    title: "Ernst van Aaken"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q71492"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump