# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-witzel
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:10:03.552Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-witzel"
name: "Michael Witzel"
slug: "michael-witzel"
description: "Michael Witzel is a German-American philologist, comparative mythologist and Indologist. Witzel is the Wales Professor of Sanskrit at Harvard University and the editor of the Harvard Oriental Series. He has researched a number of Indian sacred texts, particularly the Vedas."
tagline: "German-American philologist (born 1943)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Michael_Witzel.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1943-07-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.29973474801061
  historical:           13.646008
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Michael Witzel"
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    title: "Michael Witzel"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump