# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jean-pierre-vernant
# Generated: 2026-08-15T03:11:57.157Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jean-pierre-vernant"
name: "Jean-Pierre Vernant"
slug: "jean-pierre-vernant"
description: "Jean-Pierre Vernant was a French resistant, historian and anthropologist, specialist in ancient Greece. Influenced by Claude Lévi-Strauss, Vernant developed a structuralist approach to Greek myth, tragedy, and society which would itself be influential among classical scholars. He was an honorary professor at the Collège de France."
tagline: "French historian and anthropologist (1914–2007)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "FR"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1914-01-04"
deathDate: "2007-01-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump