# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/felix-gilbert
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:32:15.958Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/felix-gilbert"
name: "Felix Gilbert"
slug: "felix-gilbert"
description: "Felix Gilbert was a German-born American historian of early modern and modern Europe. \nGilbert was born in Baden-Baden, Germany, to a middle-class Jewish family, and part of the Mendelssohn Bartholdy clan. In the latter half of the 1920s, Gilbert studied under Friedrich Meinecke at the University of Berlin. Gilbert's area of expertise was the Renaissance, especially the diplomatic history of the period He was a fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton from 1962 to 1975, and maintained an active involvement as an emeritus faculty member until his death in 1991. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1963 and the American Philosophical Society in 1969."
tagline: "German-american historian (1905-1991)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Felix_Gilbert_1968.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1905-05-21"
deathDate: "1991-02-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.38
  momentum:             0.4524886877828054
  historical:           5.674982666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Felix Gilbert"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%B3_%D8%BA%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%AA"
    title: "فيليكس غيلبرت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Gilbert"
    title: "Felix Gilbert"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Gilbert"
    title: "Felix Gilbert"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Gilbert"
    title: "Felix Gilbert"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110691"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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