# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/max-van-berchem
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:48:10.281Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/max-van-berchem"
name: "Max van Berchem"
slug: "max-van-berchem"
description: "Edmond Maximilien Berthout van Berchem commonly known as Max van Berchem, was a Swiss philologist, epigraphist and historian. Best known as the founder of Arabic epigraphy in the Western world, he was the mastermind of the Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum, an international collaboration among eminent scholars to collect and publish Arabic inscriptions from the Middle East."
tagline: "Swiss epigraphist (1863-1921)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Max-van-berchem.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Switzerland"
  isoCode: "CH"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1863-03-16"
deathDate: "1921-03-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.34
  momentum:             9.09688013136289
  historical:           7.409576
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_van_Berchem"
    title: "Max van Berchem"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%B3_%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%B4%D9%85"
    title: "ماكس فان برشم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%B3_%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%B4%D9%85"
    title: "ماكس فان برشم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_van_Berchem"
    title: "Max van Berchem"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_van_Berchem"
    title: "Max van Berchem"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_van_Berchem"
    title: "Max van Berchem"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_van_Berchem"
    title: "Max van Berchem"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_van_Berchem"
    title: "Max van Berchem"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3853087"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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