# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gerhard-gentzen
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:35:21.983Z

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name: "Gerhard Gentzen"
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description: "Gerhard Karl Erich Gentzen was a German mathematician and logician. He made major contributions to the foundations of mathematics, proof theory, especially on natural deduction and sequent calculus. He died of starvation in a Czech prison camp in Prague in 1945."
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birthDate: "1909-11-24"
deathDate: "1945-08-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump