# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/karl-binding
# Generated: 2026-08-12T17:37:07.500Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/karl-binding"
name: "Karl Binding"
slug: "karl-binding"
description: "Karl Ludwig Lorenz Binding was a German jurist known as a promoter of the theory of retributive justice. His influential book, Die Freigabe der Vernichtung lebensunwerten Lebens, written together with the psychiatrist Alfred Hoche, was used by the Nazis to justify their Aktion T4 euthanasia program."
tagline: "German jurist (1841-1920)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "DE"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1841-06-04"
deathDate: "1920-04-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump