# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/karen-leigh-king
# Generated: 2026-08-15T19:03:16.533Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/karen-leigh-king"
name: "Karen Leigh King"
slug: "karen-leigh-king"
description: "Karen Leigh King is a historian of religion working in the field of Early Christianity, who is the Hollis Professor of Divinity at Harvard University, which is the oldest endowed chair in the United States, having been established in 1721. She was the first woman to be appointed to the position."
tagline: "American academic studying early Christianity and Gnosticism"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1954-02-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.76
  momentum:             7.76978417266187
  historical:           7.890714666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Karen_Leigh_King"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%84%D9%8A_%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%BA"
    title: "كارين لي كينغ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%84%D9%89_%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AC"
    title: "كارين لى كينج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Leigh_Kingov%C3%A1"
    title: "Karen Leigh Kingová"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Leigh_King"
    title: "Karen Leigh King"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Leigh_King"
    title: "Karen Leigh King"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Leigh_King"
    title: "Karen Leigh King"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Leigh_King"
    title: "Karen Leigh King"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Leigh_King"
    title: "Karen Leigh King"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3491981"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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