# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-wei-e
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:19:40.294Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-wei-e"
name: "Michael Weiße"
slug: "michael-wei-e"
description: "Michael Weiße or Weisse was a German theologian, Protestant reformer and hymn writer. First a Franciscan, he joined the Bohemian Brethren. He published the most extensive early Protestant hymnal in 1531, supplying most hymn texts and some tunes himself. One of his hymns was used in Johann Sebastian Bach's St John Passion."
tagline: "German theologian and hymn writer"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1488"
deathDate: "1534-03-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.92
  momentum:             6.923076923076924
  historical:           8.137725333333332
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/5013254"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%84_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B3_(%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%A8_%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%85_%D9%85%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A7)"
    title: "مايكل وايس (كاتب ترانيم من المانيا)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Weisse"
    title: "Michael Weisse"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Wei%C3%9Fe"
    title: "Michael Weiße"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Wei%C3%9Fe"
    title: "Michael Weiße"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Weisse"
    title: "Michael Weisse"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Wei%C3%9Fe"
    title: "Michael Weiße"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%B5%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%85%D0%B0%D1%8D%D0%BB%D1%8C"
    title: "Вайсе, Михаэль"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Weisse"
    title: "Michael Weisse"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/45e785eb-e988-47d8-9d08-4efdc64bb155"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q74773"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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