# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-harzer
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:16:37.097Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-harzer"
name: "Paul Harzer"
slug: "paul-harzer"
description: "Paul Harzer was a German mathematician and astronomer best known for his papers arguing with Albert Einstein regarding the Sagnac effect and its relationship to Special Relativity. Harzer was Professor of Astronomy at the University of Kiel and Director of its observatory. His published article on the experiment of Franz Harress drew two reply articles from Einstein."
tagline: "German astronomer (1857–1932)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1857-08-01"
deathDate: "1932-02-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.01
  momentum:             8.125
  historical:           5.668754666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Harzer"
    title: "Paul Harzer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%84_%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%B2%D8%B1"
    title: "بول هارزر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Harzer"
    title: "Paul Harzer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Harzer"
    title: "Paul Harzer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%8C%8C%EC%9A%B8_%ED%95%98%EB%A5%B4%EC%B2%98"
    title: "파울 하르처"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Harzer"
    title: "Paul Harzer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q106117"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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