# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/otto-eissfeldt
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:13:17.894Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/otto-eissfeldt"
name: "Otto Eissfeldt"
slug: "otto-eissfeldt"
description: "Otto Eißfeldt, spelled alternatively Otto Eissfeldt, was a German Protestant theologian, known for his work on the Old Testament and comparative near-east religious history. His magisterial 860-page The Old Testament: An Introduction, giving a detailed literary-critical assessment of the history of the formation of each part of the Old Testament on the basis of the documentary hypothesis, has been called the \"best of its kind\"."
tagline: "German theologian (1887–1973)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1887-09-01"
deathDate: "1973-04-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Otto Eissfeldt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%AA%D9%88_%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%AF%D8%AA"
    title: "اوتو ايسفيلدت"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Ei%C3%9Ffeldt"
    title: "Otto Eißfeldt"
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    title: "Otto Eissfeldt"
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    title: "Otto Eissfeldt"
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    title: "אוטו אייספלדט"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AA%E3%83%83%E3%83%88%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B9%E3%83%95%E3%82%A7%E3%83%AB%E3%83%88"
    title: "オットー・アイスフェルト"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump