# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-l-maier
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:52:33.229Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-l-maier"
name: "Paul L. Maier"
slug: "paul-l-maier"
description: "Paul L. Maier was an American historian and novelist. He wrote several works of scholarly and popular non-fiction about Christianity and novels about Christian historians. He was the Russell H. Seibert Professor of Ancient History at Western Michigan University, from which he retired in 2011, retaining the title of professor emeritus in the Department of History. He previously served as Third Vice President of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod."
tagline: "Lutheran Pastor, professor emeritus of ancient history, Apologist and novelist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1930-05-31"
deathDate: "2025-02-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.77
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.420196000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3569462/"
    handle:    "nm3569462"
sources:
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    title: "Paul Maier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "بول إل. ماير"
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    title: "بول ال. ماير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Paul L. Maier"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_L._Maier"
    title: "Paul L. Maier"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_L._Maier"
    title: "Paul L. Maier"
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  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_L._Maier"
    title: "Paul L. Maier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_L._Maier"
    title: "Paul L. Maier"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump