# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/fredric-wertham
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:46:25.870Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/fredric-wertham"
name: "Fredric Wertham"
slug: "fredric-wertham"
description: "Fredric Wertham was a German–American psychiatrist and author. Wertham had an early reputation as a progressive psychiatrist who treated poor black patients at his Lafargue Clinic at a time of heightened discrimination in urban mental health practice. Wertham also authored a definitive textbook on the brain, and his institutional stressor findings were cited when courts overturned multiple segregation statutes, most notably in Brown v. Board of Education."
tagline: "German-American psychiatrist (1895-1981)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Fredric_Wertham_(1895-1981)_portrait.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1895-03-20"
deathDate: "1981-11-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump