# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-albert-wells
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:22:39.310Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-albert-wells"
name: "George Albert Wells"
slug: "george-albert-wells"
description: "George Albert Wells was an English scholar who served as Professor of German at Birkbeck, University of London. After writing books about famous European intellectuals, such as Johann Gottfried Herder and Franz Grillparzer, he turned to the study of the historicity of Jesus, starting with his book The Jesus of the Early Christians in 1971. He is best known as an advocate of the thesis that Jesus is essentially a mythical rather than a historical figure, a theory that was pioneered by German biblical scholars such as Bruno Bauer and Arthur Drews."
tagline: "British Professor of German and rationalist (1926-2017)"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
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profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1926-05-22"
deathDate: "2017-01-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.207524
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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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