# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/franz-borkenau
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:16:40.623Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/franz-borkenau"
name: "Franz Borkenau"
slug: "franz-borkenau"
description: "Franz Borkenau was an Austrian writer. Borkenau was born in Vienna, Austria, the son of a civil servant. As a university student in Leipzig, his main interests were Marxism and psychoanalysis. Borkenau is known as one of the pioneers of the totalitarianism theory."
tagline: "Austrian writer (1900–1957)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dr._Franz_Borkenau_on_the_witness_stand_during_the_Doctors'_Trial.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Austria"
  isoCode: "AT"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1900-12-15"
deathDate: "1957-05-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.68
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.564365333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "فرانز بوركيناو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Franz Borkenau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Borkenau"
    title: "Franz Borkenau"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Borkenau"
    title: "Franz Borkenau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%B3_%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B1%DA%A9%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%88"
    title: "فرانتس بورکنائو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Borkenau"
    title: "Franz Borkenau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "フランツ・ボルケナウ"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump