# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/etienne-lamotte
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:50:58.873Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/etienne-lamotte"
name: "Étienne Lamotte"
slug: "etienne-lamotte"
description: "Étienne Paul Marie Lamotte was a Belgian priest and Professor of Greek at the Catholic University of Louvain, but was better known as an Indologist and the greatest authority on Buddhism in the West in his time. He studied under his pioneering compatriot Louis de La Vallée-Poussin and was one of the few scholars familiar with all the main Buddhist languages: Pali, Sanskrit, Chinese and Tibetan. His first published work was his PhD thesis: Notes sur le Bhagavad-Gita. - In 1953, he was awarded the Francqui Prize in Human Science."
tagline: "Indologist, priest, professor (1903-1983)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1903-11-21"
deathDate: "1983-05-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.9
  momentum:             9.07894736842105
  historical:           9.813392
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%89%BE%E8%92%82%E5%AE%89%C2%B7%E6%8B%89%E8%8E%AB%E7%89%B9"
    title: "艾蒂安·拉莫特"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%88%D8%AA"
    title: "اتين لاموت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89tienne_Lamotte"
    title: "Étienne Lamotte"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89tienne_Lamotte"
    title: "Étienne Lamotte"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89tienne_Lamotte"
    title: "Étienne Lamotte"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89tienne_Lamotte"
    title: "Étienne Lamotte"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%97%90%EB%9D%A0%EC%97%94_%EB%9D%BC%EB%AA%A8%EB%9C%A8"
    title: "에띠엔 라모뜨"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89tienne_Lamotte"
    title: "Étienne Lamotte"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89tienne_Lamotte"
    title: "Étienne Lamotte"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89tienne_Lamotte"
    title: "Étienne Lamotte"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89tienne_Lamotte"
    title: "Étienne Lamotte"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q166103"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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