# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jurgen-matthaus
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:41:37.159Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jurgen-matthaus"
name: "Jürgen Matthäus"
slug: "jurgen-matthaus"
description: "Jürgen Matthäus is a German historian and head of the research department of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. He is an author and editor of multiple works on the history of World War II and the Holocaust. Matthäus was a contributor to Christopher Browning's 2004 work The Origins of the Final Solution."
tagline: "German historian and writer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1959"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.163739669421488
  historical:           6.551369333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Юрґен Маттеус"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "يورجن ماتيوس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_Matth%C3%A4us"
    title: "Jürgen Matthäus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_Matth%C3%A4us"
    title: "Jürgen Matthäus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_Matth%C3%A4us"
    title: "Jürgen Matthäus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%99%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%92%D7%9F_%D7%9E%D7%AA%D7%90%D7%95%D7%A1"
    title: "יורגן מתאוס"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_Matth%C3%A4us"
    title: "Jürgen Matthäus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19971800"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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