# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/otto-lenel
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:15:53.191Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/otto-lenel"
name: "Otto Lenel"
slug: "otto-lenel"
description: "Otto Lenel was a German Jewish jurist and legal historian. His most important achievements are in the field of Roman law. He founded a new area of research--the study of interpolations. He identified numerous interpolations to original texts. Lenel received particular attention for his reconstructive work on the Edictum Perpetuum (1883) and the Palingenesia Iuris Civilis (1889)."
tagline: "German Jewish jurist and legal historian (1849–1935)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lenel-otto-in-sinzheimer-hugo-juedische-klassiker-der-deutschen-rechtswissenschaft-amsterdam-1938-s120f.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1849-12-13"
deathDate: "1935-02-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.2
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.738409333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Отто Ленель"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "اوتو لينيل"
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    title: "Otto Lenel"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Lenel"
    title: "Otto Lenel"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Lenel"
    title: "Otto Lenel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Lenel"
    title: "Otto Lenel"
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  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%95%D7%98%D7%95_%D7%9C%D7%A0%D7%9C"
    title: "אוטו לנל"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Lenel"
    title: "Otto Lenel"
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    title: "Otto Lenel"
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  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Lenel"
    title: "Otto Lenel"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q90243"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump