# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/helmut-koester
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:43:57.850Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/helmut-koester"
name: "Helmut Koester"
slug: "helmut-koester"
description: "Helmut Heinrich Koester was an American scholar who specialized in the New Testament and early Christianity at Harvard Divinity School. His research was primarily in the areas of New Testament interpretation, history of early Christianity, and archaeology of the early Christian period."
tagline: "German-born American scholar of the New Testament and early Christianity (1926-2016)"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "DE"
category:
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  slug: "actors"
profileType:
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  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1926-12-18"
deathDate: "2016-01-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "هيلموت كويستير"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Helmut Koester"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Helmut Koester"
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    title: "הלמוט קוסטר"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Helmut Koester"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmut_Koester"
    title: "Helmut Koester"
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  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmut_Koester"
    title: "Helmut Koester"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q96837"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump