# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/otto-herschmann
# Generated: 2026-09-07T17:15:23.642Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/otto-herschmann"
name: "Otto Herschmann"
slug: "otto-herschmann"
description: "Dr. Otto Herschmann was an Austrian Jewish swimmer, fencer, lawyer, and sports official. He is one of only a few athletes who have won Olympic medals in multiple sports, having received a silver medal in swimming in 1896 and a silver medal in fencing in 1912. He also worked as a lawyer, and served as president of the Austrian Olympic Committee and the Austrian Swimming Federation. Herschmann was murdered by the Nazis in 1942 during The Holocaust."
tagline: "Swimmer, fencer, and lawyer (1877–1942)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/ba/Otto_Herschmann.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Austria"
  isoCode: "AT"
category:
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  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1877-01-04"
deathDate: "1942-06-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           19.94373733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump