# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/maximilian-schwedler
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:40:06.116Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/maximilian-schwedler"
name: "Maximilian Schwedler"
slug: "maximilian-schwedler"
description: "Maximilian Schwedler was a German flutist, flute maker and music editor and historian. He was influential as Germany's last major advocate for the conical-bore flute, for which he made many improvements. In 1898 he received a patent for the Reformflöte \"System Schwedler-Kruspe\", also known as the Reform flute."
tagline: "German musician and musicologist (1853–1940)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Maximilian_Schwedler.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1853-03-31"
deathDate: "1940-01-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.94
  momentum:             2.181818181818182
  historical:           6.338157333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/3969311"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximilian_Schwedler"
    title: "Maximilian Schwedler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximilian_Schwedler"
    title: "Maximilian Schwedler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%82%AF%E3%82%B7%E3%83%9F%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A5%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A7%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BC"
    title: "マクシミリアン・シュヴェードラー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximilian_Schwedler"
    title: "Maximilian Schwedler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B0%D0%BD"
    title: "Шведлер, Максимилиан"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/796f19d1-b513-4adf-b217-6695a0740c08"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q87888"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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