# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jan-sehn
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:02:27.091Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jan-sehn"
name: "Jan Sehn"
slug: "jan-sehn"
description: "Jan Sehn was a Polish lawyer, 1945 to 1947 investigating magistrate, and professor at Jagiellonian University since 1961. He was a member of the Commission for the Investigation of Nazi War Crimes, and Chairman of the Kraków District Commission until 1953. In 1945 and 1946, he led the investigations on the site of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. As an investigation judge he prepared the accusation act of the former camp commandant Rudolf Höß. From 1949 he was director of the Institute of Forensic Research in Kraków. Sehn died suddenly in 1965 in Frankfurt."
tagline: "Polish lawyer and judge (1909–1965)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jan_Sehn.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1909-04-22"
deathDate: "1965-12-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.26
  momentum:             3.529411764705882
  historical:           5.489526666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Sehn"
    title: "Jan Sehn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%87%D9%86"
    title: "چان سيهن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Sehn"
    title: "Jan Sehn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jan_Sehn"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Sehn"
    title: "Jan Sehn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Sehn"
    title: "Jan Sehn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6149887"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump