# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jaan-puhvel
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:55:54.188Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jaan-puhvel"
name: "Jaan Puhvel"
slug: "jaan-puhvel"
description: "Jaan Puhvel was an Estonian comparative linguist and comparative mythologist who specialised in Indo-European studies. Born in Estonia, Puhvel fled his country with his family in 1944 and eventually ended up in Canada. After gaining his Ph.D. in comparative linguistics at Harvard University, he became a professor of classical languages, Indo-European studies and Hittite at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)."
tagline: "American-Estonian linguist (1932-2026)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/78/Jaan_Puhvel.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1932-01-24"
deathDate: "2026-04-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.6
  momentum:             2.441860465116279
  historical:           8.347121333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Jaan Puhvel"
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    title: "Jaan Puhvel"
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    title: "Jaan Puhvel"
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    title: "Jaan Puhvel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaan_Puhvel"
    title: "Jaan Puhvel"
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    title: "Пухвел, Яан"
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    title: "Jaan Puhvel"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump