# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/erwin-balz
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:35:03.770Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/erwin-balz"
name: "Erwin Bälz"
slug: "erwin-balz"
description: "Erwin Otto Eduard von Bälz, often simply known as Erwin Bälz, was a German internist, anthropologist, and personal physician to the Japanese Imperial Family and cofounder of modern western medicine in Japan."
tagline: "German physician and anthropologist (1849–1913)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Erwin_von_B%C3%A4lz.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1849-01-13"
deathDate: "1913-08-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             5.975462484629678
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: 221
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    title: "Erwin Bälz"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump