# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-petzoldt
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:15:29.430Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joseph-petzoldt"
name: "Joseph Petzoldt"
slug: "joseph-petzoldt"
description: "Joseph Petzoldt was a German positivist philosopher and teacher. He is known as the founder of several societies aimed at advancing positivist philosophy in the scientific world, and was an early proponent of the theory of relativity which he interpreted on the basis of his philosophy of \"relativistic positivism\"."
tagline: "German philosopher (1862-1929)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6e/Joseph_Petzoldt.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: "1862-11-04"
deathDate: "1929-08-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.84
  momentum:             0
  historical:           3.938553333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Petzoldt"
    title: "Joseph Petzoldt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Petzoldt"
    title: "Joseph Petzoldt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Petzoldt"
    title: "Josef Petzoldt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Petzoldt"
    title: "Joseph Petzoldt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1530031"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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