# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-baltes
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:21:23.555Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-baltes"
name: "Paul Baltes"
slug: "paul-baltes"
description: "Paul B. Baltes was a German developmental psychologist who researched life-span development and aging. He is credited with developing theories about lifespan-development, successful aging, and wisdom, and the \"selective optimization with compensation theory\" of compensating decline in aging by focussing on strengths. He has been described by American Psychologist as one of the most influential developmental psychologists."
tagline: "German psychologist (1939–2006)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1939-06-18"
deathDate: "2006-11-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.94
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.031536
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Paul B. Baltes"
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    title: "پول بالتيس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_B._Baltes"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Baltes"
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    title: "پاول بالتس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Baltes"
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  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Baltes"
    title: "Paul Baltes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Baltes"
    title: "Paul Baltes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q75594"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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