# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hartwig-fischer
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:49:08.775Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hartwig-fischer"
name: "Hartwig Fischer"
slug: "hartwig-fischer"
description: "Hartwig Fischer is a German art historian and museum director. From April 2016 until his resignation in August 2023 following a theft scandal, he was the director of the British Museum, the first non-British head of the museum since 1866. From 2012 to 2016, he was director of the Dresden State Art Collections."
tagline: "German art historian, director Dresden Museums and British Museum"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hartwig_Fischer_thanks_Matt_Hancock_MP_(30944544780)_(Fischer_cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
birthDate: "1962"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.84
  momentum:             0.7142857142857143
  historical:           7.01404
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartwig_Fischer_(konsthistoriker)"
    title: "Hartwig Fischer (konsthistoriker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%BA_%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B4%D8%B1"
    title: "هارتفيغ فيشر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AC_%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B4%D8%B1_(%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%B1%D8%AE_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81%D9%86_%D9%85%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A7)"
    title: "هارتفيج فيشر (مؤرخ الفن من المانيا)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartwig_Fischer"
    title: "Hartwig Fischer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartwig_Fischer_(Kunsthistoriker)"
    title: "Hartwig Fischer (Kunsthistoriker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A7%CE%AC%CF%81%CF%84%CE%B2%CE%B9%CE%B3%CE%BA_%CE%A6%CE%AF%CF%83%CE%B5%CF%81"
    title: "Χάρτβιγκ Φίσερ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartwig_Fischer"
    title: "Hartwig Fischer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartwig_Fischer"
    title: "Hartwig Fischer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1561814"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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