# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/francis-dvornik
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:30:30.218Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/francis-dvornik"
name: "Francis Dvornik"
slug: "francis-dvornik"
description: "Francis Dvornik was a Czech academic medievalist, byzantinist, slavist and Catholic priest. He was one of the leading 20th century authorities on Slavic and Byzantine history and matters related to the churches of Rome and Constantinople. For almost three decades, he was a professor of Byzantine history at the Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies of Harvard University."
tagline: "Czech historian (1893-1975)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dr._Franti%C5%A1ek_Dvorn%C3%ADk.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1893-08-14"
deathDate: "1975-11-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.99
  momentum:             12.9
  historical:           8.549893333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%81%D1%96%D1%81_%D0%94%D0%B2%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BD%D1%96%D0%BA"
    title: "Френсіс Дворнік"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D8%AF%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%83"
    title: "فرانسيس دفورنيك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franti%C5%A1ek_Dvorn%C3%ADk"
    title: "František Dvorník"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franti%C5%A1ek_Dvorn%C3%ADk"
    title: "František Dvorník"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Dvornik"
    title: "Francis Dvornik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Dvornik"
    title: "François Dvornik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franti%C5%A1ek_Dvorn%C3%ADk"
    title: "František Dvorník"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Dvornik"
    title: "Francis Dvornik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B2%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA%2C_%D0%A4%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%81"
    title: "Дворник, Френсис"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franti%C5%A1ek_Dvorn%C3%ADk"
    title: "František Dvorník"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1441731"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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