# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/harold-s-bender
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:26:13.489Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/harold-s-bender"
name: "Harold S. Bender"
slug: "harold-s-bender"
description: "Harold Stauffer Bender was a prominent professor of theology at Goshen College and Goshen Biblical Seminary. His accomplishments include founding both the Mennonite Historical Library and The Mennonite Quarterly Review. He served as president of the American Society of Church History, and was a major scholarly influence on fellow Mennonite theologian John Howard Yoder."
tagline: "American writer (1897-1962)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Harold_S._Bender%2C_circa_1960_(5367550986).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1897-07-19"
deathDate: "1962-09-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.83
  momentum:             1.404761904761905
  historical:           4.405328
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "هارولد إس. بندر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "هارولد اس. بندر"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_S._Bender"
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  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_S._Bender"
    title: "Harold S. Bender"
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  - url: "https://pdc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Bender"
    title: "Harold Bender"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5662291"
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    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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