# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/heinrich-besseler
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:29:43.431Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/heinrich-besseler"
name: "Heinrich Besseler"
slug: "heinrich-besseler"
description: "Heinrich Besseler was a German musicologist born in Hörde. He is particularly known for his colossal work, Die Musik des Mittelalters und der Renaissance (1931), which provided a new perspective on historical musicology by taking a history-of-ideas approach to music history."
tagline: "German musicologist (1900-1969)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1900-04-02"
deathDate: "1969-07-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.24
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.206624
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%93%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%85"
    title: "Бесселер, Генрих"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B4_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%B1"
    title: "هاينريش بيسيلر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Besseler"
    title: "Heinrich Besseler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Besseler"
    title: "Heinrich Besseler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Besseler"
    title: "Heinrich Besseler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Besseler"
    title: "Heinrich Besseler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Besseler"
    title: "Heinrich Besseler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Besseler"
    title: "Heinrich Besseler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q87832"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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