# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jean-francois-billeter
# Generated: 2026-08-15T13:59:21.827Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jean-francois-billeter"
name: "Jean François Billeter"
slug: "jean-francois-billeter"
description: "Jean François Billeter Chinese name : 毕来德 / 畢來德 Bì Láidé, born 1939 in Basel, Switzerland, is a Swiss sinologist and honorary professor of the University of Geneva, where he created the sinology department in 1987. After directing it for twelve years, he retired in 1999 to spend more time writing."
tagline: "Swiss sinologist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Switzerland"
  isoCode: "CH"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1939-06-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.58
  momentum:             0.6226691010409545
  historical:           6.825704
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%95%A2%E4%BE%86%E5%BE%B7"
    title: "畢來德"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%A7_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B1"
    title: "جان فرانسوا بيليتر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Fran%C3%A7ois_Billeter"
    title: "Jean François Billeter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Fran%C3%A7ois_Billeter"
    title: "Jean François Billeter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Fran%C3%A7ois_Billeter"
    title: "Jean François Billeter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Fran%C3%A7ois_Billeter"
    title: "Jean François Billeter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Fran%C3%A7ois_Billeter"
    title: "Jean François Billeter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Fran%C3%A7ois_Billeter"
    title: "Jean François Billeter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124556"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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