# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/owsei-temkin
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:07:27.964Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/owsei-temkin"
name: "Owsei Temkin"
slug: "owsei-temkin"
description: "Owsei Temkin was William H. Welch Professor Emeritus of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. He was a Russian-born, German-educated, American medical historian."
tagline: "Russian-born American medical historian (1902–2002)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Owsei_Temkin_(1929).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1902-10-06"
deathDate: "2002-07-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.93
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.071850666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Темкин, Овсей"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "اوسى تمكين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owsei_Temkin"
    title: "Owsei Temkin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owsei_Temkin"
    title: "Owsei Temkin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owsei_Temkin"
    title: "Owsei Temkin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owsei_Temkin"
    title: "Owsei Temkin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owsei_Temkin"
    title: "Owsei Temkin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%95%D7%91%D7%A1%D7%99%D7%99_%D7%98%D7%9E%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%9F"
    title: "אובסיי טמקין"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owsei_Temkin"
    title: "Owsei Temkin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q75312"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump