# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jean-seznec
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:00:36.065Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jean-seznec"
name: "Jean Seznec"
slug: "jean-seznec"
description: "Jean Seznec was a historian and mythographer whose most influential book, for English-speaking readers, is La Survivance des dieux antiques (1940), translated as The Survival of the Pagan Gods: Mythological Tradition in Renaissance Humanism and Art (1953). Expanding the scope of work by Warburg Institute scholars Fritz Saxl and Erwin Panofsky, Seznec presented a broad view of the transmission of classical representation in Western art."
tagline: "French historian and mythographer (1905-1983)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1905-03-18"
deathDate: "1983-11-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.99
  momentum:             2.5
  historical:           6.339669333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Jean Seznec"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جين سيزنيك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Seznec"
    title: "Jean Seznec"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Seznec"
    title: "Jean Seznec"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Seznec"
    title: "Jean Seznec"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Seznec"
    title: "Jean Seznec"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Seznec"
    title: "Jean Seznec"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q368471"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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