# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gerhard-ritter
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:03:44.607Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gerhard-ritter"
name: "Gerhard Ritter"
slug: "gerhard-ritter"
description: "Gerhard Georg Bernhard Ritter was a German historian who served as a professor of history at the University of Freiburg from 1925 to 1956. He studied under Professor Hermann Oncken. A Lutheran, he first became well known for his 1925 biography of Martin Luther and hagiographic portrayal of Prussia. A member of the German People's Party during the Weimar Republic, he was a lifelong monarchist and remained sympathetic to the political system of the defunct German Empire."
tagline: "German historian (1888-1967)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1888-04-06"
deathDate: "1967-07-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             13.95604395604395
  historical:           12.71785866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "جيرهارد ريتر"
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    title: "جيرهارد ريتتير"
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    title: "Gerhard Ritter"
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    title: "Gerhard Ritter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Gerhard Ritter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Ritter"
    title: "Gerhard Ritter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Ritter"
    title: "Gerhard Ritter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Ritter"
    title: "Gerhard Ritter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Ritter"
    title: "Gerhard Ritter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump