# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/franz-hessel
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:28:42.189Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/franz-hessel"
name: "Franz Hessel"
slug: "franz-hessel"
description: "Franz Hessel was a German writer and translator. With Walter Benjamin, he produced a German translation of three volumes of Marcel Proust's 1913-1927 work À la recherche du temps perdu in the late 1920s."
tagline: "German writer and translator (1880-1941)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1880-11-21"
deathDate: "1941-01-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.98
  momentum:             3.837209302325583
  historical:           12.32786666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "فرانز هيسيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "فرانز هيسيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Franz Hessel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Hessel"
    title: "Franz Hessel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Hessel"
    title: "Franz Hessel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Hessel"
    title: "Franz Hessel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Hessel"
    title: "Franz Hessel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Hessel"
    title: "Franz Hessel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Hessel"
    title: "Franz Hessel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franciscus_Hessel"
    title: "Franciscus Hessel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Hessel"
    title: "Franz Hessel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%2C_%D0%A4%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%86"
    title: "Хессель, Франц"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q67522"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump