# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-otlet
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:34:14.916Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-otlet"
name: "Paul Otlet"
slug: "paul-otlet"
description: "Paul Marie Ghislain Otlet was a Belgian bibliographer, lawyer, and peace activist, and a key figure in documentation science, a precursor to information science."
tagline: "Belgian author, librarian and anti-colonial thinker (1868–1944)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Paul_Otlet_%C3%A0_son_bureau_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1868-08-23"
deathDate: "1944-12-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             9.06040268456376
  historical:           20.38686533333334
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump