# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/josef-fleckenstein
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:48:53.586Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/josef-fleckenstein"
name: "Josef Fleckenstein"
slug: "josef-fleckenstein"
description: "Josef Fleckenstein was a German historian and essayist. His central field of research was the Middle Ages. He did his doctorate and habilitation with Gerd Tellenbach in Freiburg. From 1962 to 1965 he was a professor at the University of Frankfurt, then from 1965 to 1971 at the University of Freiburg as Tellenbach's successor. From 1971 to 1987 he directed the Max Planck Institute for History in Göttingen."
tagline: "German historian and writer (1919–2004)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Josef_Fleckenstein.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1919-02-18"
deathDate: "2004-11-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.83
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.604644
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "چوزيف فليكنشتاين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Fleckenstein"
    title: "Josef Fleckenstein"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Fleckenstein"
    title: "Josef Fleckenstein"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Fleckenstein"
    title: "Josef Fleckenstein"
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  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Fleckenstein"
    title: "Josef Fleckenstein"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q96150"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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