# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/etienne-wenger
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:47:22.203Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/etienne-wenger"
name: "Étienne Wenger"
slug: "etienne-wenger"
description: "Étienne Charles Wenger is an educational theorist and practitioner, best known for his formulation of the theory of situated cognition and his more recent work in the field of communities of practice."
tagline: "Swiss sociologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Etienne_Wenger_893x893.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Switzerland"
  isoCode: "CH"
birthDate: "1952-07-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  historical:           7.226388
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.wenger-trayner.com/etienne/"
sources:
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    title: "Étienne Wenger"
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    title: "إتيان وينغر"
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    title: "Étienne Wenger"
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    title: "Étienne Wenger"
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    title: "Étienne Wenger"
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    title: "Étienne Wenger"
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    title: "Étienne Wenger"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump