# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/georg-wenker
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:59:32.445Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/georg-wenker"
name: "Georg Wenker"
slug: "georg-wenker"
description: "Georg Wenker was a German linguist who began documenting German dialect geography during the late nineteenth century. He is considered a pioneer in this field and contributed several groundbreaking publications, most notably, the Deutscher Sprachatlas."
tagline: "German linguist, dialectologist, university librarian and academic teacher (1852-1911)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Georg_Wenker_Georg_Wenker_(1852-1911)_(Alter_Fritz).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1852-01-25"
deathDate: "1911-07-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.37
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.74355733333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Венкер, Георг"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://als.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Wenker"
    title: "Georg Wenker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AC_%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%83%D8%B1"
    title: "جورج وينكر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://csb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ge%C3%B2rg_Wenker"
    title: "Geòrg Wenker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Wenker"
    title: "Georg Wenker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Wenker"
    title: "Georg Wenker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Wenker"
    title: "Georg Wenker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Wenker"
    title: "Georg Wenker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B2%E3%82%AA%E3%83%AB%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A7%E3%83%B3%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC"
    title: "ゲオルク・ヴェンカー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Wenker"
    title: "Georg Wenker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Wenker"
    title: "Georg Wenker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Wenker"
    title: "Georg Wenker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Wenker"
    title: "Georg Wenker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q78450"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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