# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hermann-dessau
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:31:10.001Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hermann-dessau"
name: "Hermann Dessau"
slug: "hermann-dessau"
description: "Hermann Dessau was a German ancient historian and epigrapher. He is noted for a key work of textual criticism published in 1889 on the Historia Augusta, which uncovered reasons to believe that this surviving text of ancient Roman imperial history had been written under circumstances very different from those previously believed."
tagline: "German ancient historian and epigrapher (1856–1931)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hermann_Dessau.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1856-04-06"
deathDate: "1931-04-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.42
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.140389333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Герман Дессау"
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    title: "هيرمان ديساو"
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    title: "Hermann Dessau"
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    title: "Hermann Dessau"
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    title: "Hermann Dessau"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Dessau"
    title: "Hermann Dessau"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Dessau"
    title: "Hermann Dessau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Dessau"
    title: "Hermann Dessau"
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    title: "Дессау, Герман"
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    title: "Hermann Dessau"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q65239"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump