# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gerhard-hirschfeld
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:18:08.140Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gerhard-hirschfeld"
name: "Gerhard Hirschfeld"
slug: "gerhard-hirschfeld"
description: "Gerhard Hirschfeld is a German historian and author. From 1989 to 2011, he was director of the Stuttgart-based Bibliothek für Zeitgeschichte / Library of Contemporary History, and has been a professor at the Institute of History of the University of Stuttgart since 1997. In 2016 he also became a visiting professor at the Institute for International Studies, University of Wuhan (China)."
tagline: "German historian of modern age"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gerhard_Hirschfeld.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "DE"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
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  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1946-09-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             4.622733476311172
  historical:           7.877358666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "جيرهارد هيرشفيلد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Gerhard Hirschfeld"
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    title: "Gerhard Hirschfeld"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Hirschfeld"
    title: "Gerhard Hirschfeld"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Gerhard Hirschfeld"
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    title: "ゲルハルト・ヒルシュフェルト"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump