# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/oswald-szemerenyi
# Generated: 2026-08-15T01:48:32.013Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/oswald-szemerenyi"
name: "Oswald Szemerényi"
slug: "oswald-szemerenyi"
description: "Oswald John Louis Szemerényi was a Hungarian-British historical linguist and Indo-Europeanist. He is best known as the namesake of Szemerényi's law, a potential early sound law in the Proto-Indo-European language."
tagline: "Hungarian linguist (1913–1996)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Freiburg_Universit%C3%A4t_H%C3%B6rsaal%2C_Podiumsgespr%C3%A4ch_Sprache_und_Wirklichkeit%2C_von_links_nach_rechts%2C_Prof._Dr._Hans_Marchand%2C_T%C3%BCbingen%3B_Prof._Dr._Helmut_L%C3%BCd_-_W134Nr.048032b_-_Willy_Pragher_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1913-09-07"
deathDate: "1996-12-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.557093425605536
  historical:           14.67869066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Освальд Семерэньі"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump