# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/herfried-munkler
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:42:11.505Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/herfried-munkler"
name: "Herfried Münkler"
slug: "herfried-munkler"
description: "Herfried Münkler is a German political scientist. He is a Professor of Political Theory at Humboldt University in Berlin. Münkler is a regular commentator on global affairs in the German-language media and author of numerous books on the history of political ideas, on state-building and on the theory of war, such as \"Machiavelli\" (1982), \"Gewalt und Ordnung\" (1992), \"The New Wars\" and \"Empires: The Logic of World Domination from Ancient Rome to the United States\". In 2009 Münkler was awarded the Leipzig Book Fair Prize in the category \"Non-fiction\" for Die Deutschen und ihre Mythen."
tagline: "German political scientist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Prof._Herfried_M%C3%BCnkler_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
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: "1951-08-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.77
  momentum:             3.676270241607634
  historical:           6.936512
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2203335/"
    handle:    "nm2203335"
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    title: "هيرفريد مونكلر"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herfried_M%C3%BCnkler"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump