# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hans-gross
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:37:45.632Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hans-gross"
name: "Hans Gross"
slug: "hans-gross"
description: "Hans Gustav Adolf Gross or Groß was an Austrian criminal jurist and criminologist, the \"Founding Father\" of criminal profiling. A criminal jurist, Gross made a mark as the creator of the field of criminality. Throughout his life, Hans Gross made significant contributions to the realm of scientific criminology. As Gross developed in his career as an examining justice, he noticed the failings of the field of law. His book, classes, institutions, and methods helped improve the justice system through his experience as a justice."
tagline: "Austrian jurist (1847-1915)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hans_Gross_portrait_oval_crop.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1847-12-26"
deathDate: "1915-12-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.522525510701812
  historical:           17.32066666666667
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
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