# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-rie-ler
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:02:24.961Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-rie-ler"
name: "Michael Rießler"
slug: "michael-rie-ler"
description: "Michael Rießler, also transcribed Michael Riessler, is a German and Finnish linguist. In August 2020, Rießler was appointed professor at the University of Eastern Finland."
tagline: "Professor of General Linguistics"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Michael_Rie%C3%9Fler_vid_Projekt_Fredrikas_julfest_2019.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1971-02-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.57
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.338733333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     49.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 10
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://uefconnect.uef.fi/en/person/michael.riessler/"
  - platform:  "GITHUB"
    url:       "https://github.com/meehkal"
    handle:    "meehkal"
    followers: 10
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Rie%C3%9Fler"
    title: "Michael Rießler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Rie%C3%9Fler"
    title: "Michael Rießler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Rie%C3%9Fler"
    title: "Michael Rießler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Rie%C3%9Fler"
    title: "Michael Rießler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Rie%C3%9Fler"
    title: "Michael Rießler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://kv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%85%D0%B0%D1%8D%D0%BB%D1%8C_%D0%A0%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Михаэль Рисслер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%85%D0%B0%D1%8D%D0%BB%D1%8C"
    title: "Рисслер, Михаэль"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q57691282"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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