# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jean-przyluski
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:26:25.212Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jean-przyluski"
name: "Jean Przyluski"
slug: "jean-przyluski"
description: "Jean Przyluski was a French linguist and scholar of religion and Buddhism of Polish descent. His interests ranged widely through the structure of the Vietnamese language, the development of Buddhist myths and legends, as well as Indo-European folk traditions such as the werewolf cult. In addition, he thought out general theories about the development of religion, which he presented in his magnum opus L'Evolution humaine (1942)."
tagline: "French linguist and scholar of religion"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1885-08-17"
deathDate: "1944-10-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.29
  momentum:             1.929824561403509
  historical:           5.271562666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Przyluski"
    title: "Jean Przyluski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%83%D9%89"
    title: "جان برزيلوسكى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Przyluski"
    title: "Jean Przyluski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ioannes_Przyluski"
    title: "Ioannes Przyluski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Przyluski"
    title: "Jean Przyluski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Przyluski"
    title: "Jean Przyluski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12900505"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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