# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leo-weisgerber
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:57:40.506Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leo-weisgerber"
name: "Leo Weisgerber"
slug: "leo-weisgerber"
description: "Johann Leo Weisgerber was a German linguist who also specialized in Celtic linguistics. He developed the \"organicist\" or \"relativist\" theory that different languages produce different experiences. He was the son of a village teacher who served as a young man in the German army in Flanders, so could not return to his home city. During World War II his pan-Celticist ideology was co-opted to support the German war effort, as did pro-Polish and pro-Czech ideology on the side of the allies."
tagline: "German linguist (1899-1985)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Leo_Weisgerber.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1899-02-25"
deathDate: "1985-08-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.815552
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Лео Вайсгербер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ليو ويسجيربر"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Leo Weisgerber"
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    title: "Leo Weisgerber"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Weisgerber"
    title: "Leo Weisgerber"
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    title: "Leo Weisgerber"
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    title: "Leo Weisgerber"
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    title: "Leo Weisgerber"
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    title: "Leo Weisgerber"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A0%88%EC%98%A4_%EB%B0%94%EC%9D%B4%EC%8A%A4%EA%B2%8C%EB%A5%B4%EB%B2%84"
    title: "레오 바이스게르버"
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    title: "Leo Weisgerber"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q70773"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump