# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hans-p-kraus
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:02:54.011Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hans-p-kraus"
name: "Hans P. Kraus"
slug: "hans-p-kraus"
description: "Hans Peter Kraus, also known as H. P. Kraus or HPK, was an Austrian-born American book dealer described as \"without doubt the most successful and dominant rare book dealer in the world in the second half of the 20th century\" and in a league with other rare book dealers such as Bernard Quaritch, Guillaume de Bure and A.S.W. Rosenbach. Kraus specialized in medieval illuminated manuscripts, incunables, and rare books of the 16th and 17th centuries, but would purchase and sell almost any book that came his way that was rare, valuable and important. He prided himself in being \"the only bookseller in history...to have owned a Gutenberg Bible and the Psalters of 1457 and 1459 simultaneously,\" stressing that \"'own' here is the correct word, as they were bought not for a client's account but for stock.\""
tagline: "Austrian-born American rare book dealer (1907-1988)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1907-10-12"
deathDate: "1988-11-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.02
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.568253333333335
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_P._Kraus"
    title: "Hans P. Kraus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3_%D8%A8%D9%8A_%D9%83%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B3"
    title: "هانس بي كراوس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3_%D8%A8%D9%89_%D9%83%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B3"
    title: "هانس بى كراوس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Peter_Kraus"
    title: "Hans Peter Kraus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_P._Kraus"
    title: "Hans P. Kraus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._P._Kraus"
    title: "H. P. Kraus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_P._Kraus"
    title: "Hans P. Kraus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q85506"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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