# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/erwin-von-zach
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:54:30.962Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/erwin-von-zach"
name: "Erwin von Zach"
slug: "erwin-von-zach"
description: "Erwin Julius Ritter von Zach was an Austrian-Hungary diplomat and sinologist noted for his studies of Chinese literature and its translation, as well as his often harsh criticism of other scholars' work. His German translations of the early Chinese anthology Selections of Refined Literature  and the collected poems of Li Bai and Han Yu are still the only complete translations into a Western language; he also translated the collected poems of Du Fu."
tagline: "Sinologist (1872–1942)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Erwin_von_Zach.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Austria"
  isoCode: "AT"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1872-04-18"
deathDate: "1942-01-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.92
  momentum:             14.75398230088495
  historical:           4.604212
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D8%B1%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%81%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%B2%D8%A7%D9%83"
    title: "إرفين فون زاك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%81%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%B2%D8%A7%D9%83"
    title: "ارفين فون زاك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_von_Zach"
    title: "Erwin von Zach"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_von_Zach"
    title: "Erwin von Zach"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Ritter_von_Zach"
    title: "Erwin Ritter von Zach"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q112704"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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