# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jean-amery
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:32:29.798Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/jean-amery"
name: "Jean Améry"
slug: "jean-amery"
description: "Jean Améry, born Hans Chaim Maier, was an Austrian-born essayist who wrote about his experiences surviving the Holocaust. His most celebrated work, At the Mind's Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and Its Realities (1966), suggests that torture was \"the essence\" of the Third Reich. Other notable works included On Aging (1968) and On Suicide: A Discourse on Voluntary Death (1976). He adopted the pseudonym Jean Améry after 1945. Améry died by suicide in 1978."
tagline: "Austrian-born essayist and Holocaust survivor (1912-1978)"
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1912-10-31"
deathDate: "1978-10-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump