# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hans-wehr
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:49:45.712Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hans-wehr"
name: "Hans Wehr"
slug: "hans-wehr"
description: "Hans Bodo Wehr was a German Arabist. He is best known for his work on A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, originally published in German as Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart in 1952. The system of transliteration used in the dictionary has become known as Hans Wehr transliteration."
tagline: "German arabist (1909–1981)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hanswehr1972.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1909-07-05"
deathDate: "1981-05-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.18
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.223796
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8F%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A7%E3%83%BC%E3%82%A2"
    title: "ハンス・ヴェーア"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Wehr"
    title: "Hans Wehr"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B2_%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "هانز فير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B2_%DA%A4%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "هانز ڤير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Wehr"
    title: "Hans Wehr"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Wehr"
    title: "Hans Wehr"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Wehr"
    title: "Hans Wehr"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%94%D7%A0%D7%A1_%D7%95%D7%A8"
    title: "הנס ור"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q76276"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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