# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/freidank
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:39:44.429Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/freidank"
name: "Freidank"
slug: "freidank"
description: "Freidank (Vrîdanc) was a Middle High German didactic poet of the early 13th century. He is the author of Bescheidenheit, a collection of rhyming aphorisms in 53 thematic divisions, extending to some 4,700 verses. The work was extremely popular in the German Middle Ages and is transmitted in numerous manuscripts, as well as in a Latin translation."
tagline: "German poet"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1200"
deathDate: "1233"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.57
  momentum:             9.473684210526315
  historical:           7.474226666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/1c04c764-41f4-46ae-a2e3-4dc31f161710"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freidank"
    title: "Freidank"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freidank"
    title: "Freidank"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freidank"
    title: "Freidank"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A4%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%93%D7%A0%D7%A7"
    title: "פרידנק"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freidank"
    title: "Freidank"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freidank"
    title: "Freidank"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikiquote.org/wiki/Freidank"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Freidank"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1453903"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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