# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/herbert-jankuhn
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:22:57.759Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/herbert-jankuhn"
name: "Herbert Jankuhn"
slug: "herbert-jankuhn"
description: "Herbert Jankuhn was a German archaeologist who specialized in the archaeology of Germanic peoples. He is best known for his excavations at the Viking Age site of Hedeby, and for his instrumental role in the publishing of the second edition of the Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde."
tagline: "SS Officer (1905-1990)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b7/Herbert_Jankuhn.jpeg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1905-08-08"
deathDate: "1990-04-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.28
  momentum:             1.764705882352941
  historical:           7.688266666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Herbert Jankuhn"
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  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AA_%DA%86%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%83%D9%88%D9%87%D9%86"
    title: "هيربيرت چانكوهن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Herbert Jankuhn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Jankuhn"
    title: "Herbert Jankuhn"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Jankuhn"
    title: "Herbert Jankuhn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Jankuhn"
    title: "Herbert Jankuhn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbertas_Jank%C5%ABnas"
    title: "Herbertas Jankūnas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Jankuhn"
    title: "Herbert Jankuhn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AF%D0%BD%D0%BA%D1%83%D0%BD%2C_%D0%93%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%82"
    title: "Янкун, Герберт"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q72564"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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