# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ludwig-schmidt
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:51:56.087Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ludwig-schmidt"
name: "Ludwig Schmidt"
slug: "ludwig-schmidt"
description: "Ludwig Schmidt was a German historian and librarian at the Saxon State and University Library Dresden. He is best known for his magnum opus, Die Geschichte der deutschen Stämme bis zum Ausgang der Völkerwanderung (1904-1918), which up to the present day remains the standard reference work on the history of the Germanic peoples in the Migration Period."
tagline: "German historian (1862–1944)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ludwig_Schmidt.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1862-07-16"
deathDate: "1944-03-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.471994666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Ludwig Schmidt (Historiker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%AC_%D8%B4%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AA"
    title: "لودويج شميت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Schmidt"
    title: "Ludwig Schmidt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%BC%D0%B8%D0%B4%D1%82%2C_%D0%9B%D1%8E%D0%B4%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B3"
    title: "Шмидт, Людвиг"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Schmidt"
    title: "Ludwig Schmidt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Schmidt"
    title: "Ludwig Schmidt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q96397"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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