# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jost-winteler
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:40:36.021Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jost-winteler"
name: "Jost Winteler"
slug: "jost-winteler"
description: "Jost Winteler was a Swiss professor of Greek and history at the Kantonsschule Aarau, a linguist, a \"noted\" philologist, an ornithologist, a journalist, and a published poet. He served as both a mentor and father figure to a teenage Albert Einstein, who boarded at his home from October 1895 to October 1896, while he attended his final year of secondary school."
tagline: "Swiss linguist, teacher, ornithologist and poet, and Albert Einstein's housefather at Aarau (1846-1929)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jost_Winteler_(1846%E2%80%931929)_um_1880.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Switzerland"
  isoCode: "CH"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1846-11-21"
deathDate: "1929-02-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.39
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.292010666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Jost Winteler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://als.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jost_Winteler"
    title: "Jost Winteler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%AA_%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "چوست وينتيلير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jost_Winteler"
    title: "Jost Winteler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jost_Winteler"
    title: "Jost Winteler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%AA_%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%84%D8%B1"
    title: "جوست وینتلر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18021448"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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