# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-lortz
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:12:55.739Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joseph-lortz"
name: "Joseph Lortz"
slug: "joseph-lortz"
description: "Joseph (Adam) Lortz was a Roman Catholic church historian. He was a highly regarded Reformation historian and ecumenist. Beginning in the 1940s, Lortz made his ecumenical views available to general readers as well as to scholars in order to promote reconciliation between Catholics and Protestants. His writings played a role in the thinking that manifested itself in the Second Vatican Council's Decree on Ecumenism, Unitatis Redintegratio. What was not widely known, however, was Lortz's involvement with Nazism from 1933 until 1937. His Geschichte der Kirche (1932) portrayed the church of the 1800s and the 1900s as the bastion of divine truth and moral values amid what he considered the decay of Western society."
tagline: "German Church historian (1887–1975)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Grevenmacher%2C_cimeti%C3%A8re_%28136%29.jpg/330px-Grevenmacher%2C_cimeti%C3%A8re_%28136%29.jpg"
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: "1887-12-13"
deathDate: "1975-02-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.38
  momentum:             2.906647807637907
  historical:           7.673974666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Лорц, Йозеф"
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    title: "چوزيف لورتز"
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    title: "Joseph Lortz"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Lortz"
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  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Lortz"
    title: "Joseph Lortz"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump