# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hermann-gunkel
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:12:44.174Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/hermann-gunkel"
name: "Hermann Gunkel"
slug: "hermann-gunkel"
description: "Hermann Gunkel was a German Old Testament scholar and the founder of form criticism. He also became a leading representative of the history of religions school. His major works cover Genesis and the Psalms, and his major interests centered on the oral tradition behind written sources and in folklore."
tagline: "German evangelical theologian (1862–1932)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gunkel.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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birthDate: "1862-05-23"
deathDate: "1932-03-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump