# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/guenter-lewy
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:39:33.131Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/guenter-lewy"
name: "Guenter Lewy"
slug: "guenter-lewy"
description: "Guenter Lewy was a German-born American author and political scientist who was a professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His works spanned several topics, but he is most often associated with his 1978 book on the Vietnam War, America in Vietnam, and several controversial works that deal with the applicability of the term genocide to various historical events, where Lewy denied both the Romani genocide and the Armenian genocide."
tagline: "American author and political scientist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Fulbright_70th_Anniversary_Gala_(22832050348).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1923-08-22"
deathDate: "2026-03-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.68
  momentum:             3.475871691960366
  historical:           7.247628000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guenter_Lewy"
    title: "Guenter Lewy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%BA%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%8A"
    title: "غونتر ليوي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%89"
    title: "جونتر ليوى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guenter_Lewy"
    title: "Guenter Lewy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guenter_Lewy"
    title: "Guenter Lewy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guenter_Lewy"
    title: "Guenter Lewy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guenter_Lewy"
    title: "Guenter Lewy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guenter_Lewy"
    title: "Guenter Lewy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q71413"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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