# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/otto-franke
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:00:19.047Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/otto-franke"
name: "Otto Franke"
slug: "otto-franke"
description: "Otto Franke was a German diplomat, sinologist, and historian. He was the preeminent German sinologist of his time, called the \"Nestor of German Sinology\" by Hellmut Wilhelm. He served as a diplomat at the German embassy to the Qing empire for 13 years, before becoming the inaugural Sinology Chair at the University of Hamburg and then at the University of Berlin. His five-volume Geschichte des Chinesischen Reiches, though unfinished because of World War II, remains the standard history of China in Germany decades after its publication. His son Wolfgang Franke was also a well-known sinologist who succeeded him as the Sinology Chair at Hamburg."
tagline: "German sinologist (1863–1946)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Franke-otto-1912-06-01-deutsche-kolonialzeitung-jg29-nr22-sonderbeilage.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1863-09-27"
deathDate: "1946-08-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.13
  momentum:             15
  historical:           12.67822266666667
  currentAttention:     0.8
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "اوتتو فرانك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Franke_(sinologist)"
    title: "Otto Franke (sinologist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Franke"
    title: "Otto Franke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Franke"
    title: "Otto Franke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Franke"
    title: "Otto Franke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AA%E3%83%83%E3%83%88%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B1"
    title: "オットー・フランケ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Franke"
    title: "Otto Franke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Franke"
    title: "Otto Franke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Franke"
    title: "Otto Franke"
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  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%B5%2C_%D0%9E%D1%82%D1%82%D0%BE"
    title: "Франке, Отто"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Franke"
    title: "Otto Franke"
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  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%A6%8F%E5%85%B0%E9%98%81"
    title: "福兰阁"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump