# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/maurice-delafosse
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:57:43.376Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/maurice-delafosse"
name: "Maurice Delafosse"
slug: "maurice-delafosse"
description: "Maurice Delafosse was a French ethnographer and colonial official who also worked in the field of the languages of Africa. In a review of his daughter's biography of him he was described as \"one of the most outstanding French colonial administrators and ethnologists of his time.\""
tagline: "French academic (1870–1926)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Maurice_Delafosse.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1870-12-20"
deathDate: "1926-11-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             23.73034138856924
  historical:           10.95133333333333
  currentAttention:     25.96
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Морис Делафос"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "موريس ديلافوس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Maurice Delafosse"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Delafosse"
    title: "Maurice Delafosse"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Delafosse"
    title: "Maurice Delafosse"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Delafosse"
    title: "Maurice Delafosse"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Delafosse"
    title: "Maurice Delafosse"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Delafosse"
    title: "Maurice Delafosse"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Delafosse"
    title: "Maurice Delafosse"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A2%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%89%E3%82%A5%E3%83%A9%E3%83%95%E3%82%A9%E3%82%B9"
    title: "モリス・ドゥラフォス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://jv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Delafosse"
    title: "Maurice Delafosse"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Delafosse"
    title: "Maurice Delafosse"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%84%D0%BE%D1%81%2C_%D0%9C%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81"
    title: "Делафос, Морис"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump