# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michel-zink
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:18:03.976Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michel-zink"
name: "Michel Zink"
slug: "michel-zink"
description: "Michel Zink is a French writer, medievalist, philologist, and professor of French literature, particularly that of the Middle Ages. He is the Permanent Secretary of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, a title he has held since 2011, and was elected to the Académie française in 2017. In addition to his academic work, he has also written historical crime novels, one of which continues the story of Arsène Lupin."
tagline: "French philologist and professor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Michel_Zink_2009.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1945-05-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.82
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.035244
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "ميشيل زينك"
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    title: "Michel Zink"
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    title: "Michel Zink"
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    title: "Michel Zink"
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    title: "Michel Zink"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Zink"
    title: "Michel Zink"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Zink"
    title: "Michel Zink"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Зенк, Мишель"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump