# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jacques-semelin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:37:35.098Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jacques-semelin"
name: "Jacques Sémelin"
slug: "jacques-semelin"
description: "Jacques Sémelin is a French historian and political scientist. He is a professor at Sciences Po Paris and senior researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). His main fields of study are the Holocaust, mass violence, civil resistance and rescue in genocidal situations, and more recently the survival of Jews in France during the Second World War. In 1998, he created a pioneering course on genocides and massacres at Sciences Po Paris. He is the founder of the Online Encyclopedia of Mass Violence."
tagline: "French historian"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jacques_Semelin_au_librairie_Olivieri.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1951-04-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.348453333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_S%C3%A9melin"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump