# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hermann-rorschach
# Generated: 2026-08-31T15:45:50.783Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hermann-rorschach"
name: "Hermann Rorschach"
slug: "hermann-rorschach"
description: "A Swiss psychiatrist who turned his art training into a diagnostic tool: inkblots designed to surface what the mind won't say aloud. The test still carries his name, still divides opinion, still gets used."
tagline: "Swiss Freudian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (1885–1922)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hermann_Rorschach_c.1910.JPG"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Switzerland"
  isoCode: "CH"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1884-11-08"
deathDate: "1922-04-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           54.08
  momentum:             0.1016374929418408
  historical:           22.94509066666667
  currentAttention:     0.564652738565782
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
tags:
  - name: "Academics"
    slug: "academics"
  - name: "Academic"
    slug: "academic"
  - name: "Psychology"
    slug: "psychology"
  - name: "Switzerland"
    slug: "switzerland"
  - name: "Europe"
    slug: "europe"
  - name: "20th Century"
    slug: "20th-century"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q122279"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Rorschach"
    title: "Wikipedia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pantheon.world/profile/person/Hermann%20Rorschach"
    title: "Pantheon 2.0"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%AE"
    title: "هرمان رورشاخ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%AE"
    title: "هرمان رورشاخ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Ror%C5%9Fax"
    title: "Herman Rorşax"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%A0%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%88%D0%B0%D1%85"
    title: "Херман Роршах"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A8_%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%B6%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%96"
    title: "হারমান রোরশাখ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Rorschach"
    title: "Hermann Rorschach"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Rorschach"
    title: "Hermann Rorschach"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Rorschach"
    title: "Hermann Rorschach"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Rorschach"
    title: "Hermann Rorschach"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Rorschach"
    title: "Hermann Rorschach"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Rorschach"
    title: "Hermann Rorschach"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Rorschach"
    title: "Hermann Rorschach"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%AE"
    title: "هرمان رورشاخ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Rorschach"
    title: "Hermann Rorschach"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Rorschach"
    title: "Hermann Rorschach"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Rorschach"
    title: "Hermann Rorschach"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Rorschach"
    title: "Hermann Rorschach"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%94%D7%A8%D7%9E%D7%9F_%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%A9%D7%90%D7%9A"
    title: "הרמן רורשאך"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Rorschach"
    title: "Hermann Rorschach"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Rorschach"
    title: "Hermann Rorschach"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%80%D5%A5%D6%80%D5%B4%D5%A1%D5%B6_%D5%8C%D5%B8%D6%80%D5%B7%D5%A1%D5%AD"
    title: "Հերման Ռորշախ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Rorschach"
    title: "Hermann Rorschach"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hermann_Rorschach"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://als.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Rorschach"
    title: "Hermann Rorschach"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%AE"
    title: "هرمان رورشاخ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Hermann Rorschach was born on 8 November 1884 in Switzerland and trained as both a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. His background in art became the engine for an experiment: a set of inkblots meant to measure unconscious elements of personality. The method evolved into the Rorschach test, which found use in identifying personality disorders, psychosis, and neurological conditions. He spent years refining the approach. On 2 April 1922, at 37, he died—work unfinished, iterations of the test still ahead.