# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jacob-sprenger
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:42:03.675Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jacob-sprenger"
name: "Jacob Sprenger"
slug: "jacob-sprenger"
description: "Jacob Sprenger was a Dominican inquisitor and theologian principally known for his association with an infamous book on witch-hunting Malleus Maleficarum (1486). He taught at the University of Cologne."
tagline: "Priest from Germany"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Sprenger_-_Malleus_maleficarum%2C_1669_-_BEIC_9477645.tiff/lossy-page1-330px-Sprenger_-_Malleus_maleficarum%2C_1669_-_BEIC_9477645.tiff.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "TV Personality"
  slug: "tv-personality"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1435"
deathDate: "1495-12-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.38
  momentum:             1.153846153846154
  historical:           14.72091866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "ياكوب شبرنجر"
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    title: "جاكوب سبرنجر (عالم لاهوت)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jakob Sprenger"
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  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob_Sprenger"
    title: "Jakob Sprenger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jacob Sprenger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob_Sprenger_(Inquisitor)"
    title: "Jakob Sprenger (Inquisitor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Sprenger"
    title: "Jacob Sprenger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Sprenger"
    title: "Jacob Sprenger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob_Sprenger"
    title: "Jakob Sprenger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Sprenger"
    title: "Jacques Sprenger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob_Sprenger"
    title: "Jakob Sprenger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Sprenger"
    title: "Jacob Sprenger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iacobus_Sprenger"
    title: "Iacobus Sprenger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Sprenger"
    title: "Jacob Sprenger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob_Sprenger"
    title: "Jakob Sprenger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob_Sprenger_(inkwizytor)"
    title: "Jakob Sprenger (inkwizytor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Sprenger"
    title: "James Sprenger"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump