# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nathan-sivin
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:59:51.676Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nathan-sivin"
name: "Nathan Sivin"
slug: "nathan-sivin"
description: "Nathan Sivin, also known as Xiwen, was an American sinologist, historian, essayist, educator, and writer. He taught first at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, then at the University of Pennsylvania until his retirement in 2006."
tagline: "American sinologist (1931–2022)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1931-05-11"
deathDate: "2022-06-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.77
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.210908
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8D%97%E6%A3%AE%C2%B7%E5%B8%AD%E6%96%87"
    title: "南森·席文"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%AB%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "ناثان سيفين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Sivin"
    title: "Nathan Sivin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Sivin"
    title: "Nathan Sivin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Sivin"
    title: "Nathan Sivin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8D%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B5%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%BB%E3%83%93%E3%83%B3"
    title: "ネイサン・セビン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%84%A4%EC%9D%B4%EC%84%A0_%EC%8B%9C%EB%B9%88"
    title: "네이선 시빈"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Sivin"
    title: "Nathan Sivin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q335192"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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