# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ferdinand-blumentritt
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:39:12.513Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ferdinand-blumentritt"
name: "Ferdinand Blumentritt"
slug: "ferdinand-blumentritt"
description: "Ferdinand Johann Franz Blumentritt was an Austrian teacher, secondary school principal in Leitmeritz, lecturer, and author of articles and books about the Philippines and its ethnography. He is well known in the Philippines for his close friendship with the writer and Propagandist José Rizal, and the numerous correspondence between the two provide a vital reference for historians and scholars studying Rizal, including his last letter from prison before the execution."
tagline: "Austrian ethnographer and educator (1853-1913)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Blumentritt%2C_lecturer.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1853-09-10"
deathDate: "1913-09-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.67
  momentum:             1.631522717049033
  historical:           10.57289733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Ferdinand Blumentritt"
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  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF_%D8%A8%D9%84%D9%88%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA"
    title: "فيرديناند بلومينتريت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bcl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Blumentritt"
    title: "Ferdinand Blumentritt"
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  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Blumentritt"
    title: "Ferdinand Blumentritt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Blumentritt"
    title: "Ferdinand Blumentritt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Blumentritt"
    title: "Ferdinand Blumentritt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Blumentritt"
    title: "Ferdinand Blumentritt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Blumentritt"
    title: "Ferdinand Blumentritt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Blumentritt"
    title: "Ferdinand Blumentritt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Blumentritt"
    title: "Ferdinand Blumentritt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Blumentritt"
    title: "Ferdinand Blumentritt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Blumentritt"
    title: "Ferdinand Blumentritt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Blumentritt"
    title: "Ferdinand Blumentritt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q981793"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump