# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/erwin-ackerknecht
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:22:47.922Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/erwin-ackerknecht"
name: "Erwin Ackerknecht"
slug: "erwin-ackerknecht"
description: "Erwin Heinz Ackerknecht was an active and influential Trotskyist in the 1930s who had to flee Germany in 1933 after Hitler’s rise to power. It was in the United States, the country that granted him citizenship, that Ackerknecht became an influential historian of medicine. He wrote groundbreaking works on the social and ecological dimensions of disease and was a forerunner of contemporary trends in social and cultural history. He became the first chair in the history of medicine at the University of Wisconsin; the second such position in the United States."
tagline: "Trotskyist (1906-1988)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Erwin_H._Ackerknecht_1987.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1906-06-01"
deathDate: "1988-11-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.53
  momentum:             15.26794258373206
  historical:           5.274622666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Ackerknecht"
    title: "Erwin Ackerknecht"
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  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%83%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%AA"
    title: "اروين اكيركنيتشت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Heinz_Ackerknecht"
    title: "Erwin Heinz Ackerknecht"
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  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%DB%8C%DA%A9%D8%B1%DA%A9%D9%86%DB%8C%DA%86%D9%B9"
    title: "ایرون ایکرکنیچٹ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Heinz_Ackerknecht"
    title: "Erwin Heinz Ackerknecht"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Ackerknecht"
    title: "Erwin Ackerknecht"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q91371"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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