# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kristofer-schipper
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:56:17.455Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kristofer-schipper"
name: "Kristofer Schipper"
slug: "kristofer-schipper"
description: "Kristofer Marinus Schipper, also known as Rik Schipper and by his Chinese name Shi Zhouren, was a Dutch sinologist. He was a professor of Oriental studies at Leiden University, appointed there in 1993. Schipper worked as researcher for École française d'Extrême-Orient and later taught as directeur de recherche in History of Daoism studies at the École pratique des hautes études in Paris. He was head of the Institut des Hautes Études Chinoises from the Collège de France. He also taught at Fuzhou University and Zhangzhou College. After his retirement, he and his wife Yuan Bingling moved to Fuzhou (Fujian) in China."
tagline: "Dutch sinologist (1934-2021)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kristofer_Schipper_Amsterdam_2009_T_(cropped).JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1934-10-23"
deathDate: "2021-02-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.835443037974684
  historical:           8.580457333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "كريستوفر شيبر"
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    title: "Kristofer Schipper"
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    title: "Kristofer Schipper"
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  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristofer_Schipper"
    title: "Kristofer Schipper"
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  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristofer_Schipper"
    title: "Kristofer Schipper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristofer_Schipper"
    title: "Kristofer Schipper"
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  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristofer_Schipper"
    title: "Kristofer Schipper"
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  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%96%BD%E8%88%9F%E4%BA%BA"
    title: "施舟人"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump