# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/herman-joseph-alerding
# Generated: 2026-08-15T07:11:14.898Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/herman-joseph-alerding"
name: "Herman Joseph Alerding"
slug: "herman-joseph-alerding"
description: "Herman Joseph Alerding was a German-born American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as bishop of the Diocese of Fort Wayne in Indiana from 1900 until his death in 1924."
tagline: "German-American Catholic bishop (1845–1924)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Herman_alerding_bishop_of_fort_wayne.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1845-04-13"
deathDate: "1924-12-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           35.62
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.40324
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86_%DA%86%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AC"
    title: "هيرمان چوزيف اليردينج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Joseph_Alerding"
    title: "Herman Joseph Alerding"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Joseph_Alerding"
    title: "Herman Joseph Alerding"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Joseph_Alerding"
    title: "Herman Joseph Alerding"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Herman_Joseph_Alerding"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5739894"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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