# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-schmidt-salomon
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:03:44.887Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-schmidt-salomon"
name: "Michael Schmidt-Salomon"
slug: "michael-schmidt-salomon"
description: "Michael Schmidt-Salomon is a German author, philosopher, and public relations manager. As chairman of the Giordano Bruno Foundation, a humanist organization that is critical of religion, he has been identified as Germany's \"Chief Atheist.\" His books include the Manifesto of Evolutionary Humanism: A Plea for a Contemporary Culture, and Die Kirche im Kopf. His children's book Wo bitte geht's zu Gott?, fragte das kleine Ferkel caused controversy for its depiction of religion."
tagline: "German author, philosopher, and public relations manager"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Oberwesel_Schmidt-Salomon_Januar2018.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "DE"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1967-09-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "michael.schmidtsalomon"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.schmidt-salomon.de/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump