# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-stapfer
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:00:04.155Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-stapfer"
name: "Paul Stapfer"
slug: "paul-stapfer"
description: "Paul Stapfer (1840–1917) was a French essayist, born in Paris, and educated at the Bonaparte Lyceum. After serving as tutor in the family of François Guizot, he became a professor at Grenoble. In 1883, he accepted a similar professorship at Bordeaux. Stapfer's essays are remarkable for their clarity of style, perfection of finish and accuracy of detail. He edited the Grands écrivains series. Among his works are:Petite comédie de la critique littéraire de Molière selon les trois écoles philosophiques (1866)\nFragment Inedit (1870)\nCauseries guernesiaises (1881)\nLaurence Sterne, sa personne et ses ouvrages \nShakespeare et l'antiquité (1883), which revealed to anti-Stratfordians the depth of its subject's knowledge of Latin and his formidable acquaintance with Greek.\nGoethe et ses deux chefs-d'œuvre classiques (1881)\nRacine et Victor Hugo (1886)\nRabelais, sa personne, son génie, son œuvre (1889)\nMontaigne (1894)\nLa grande prédication chrétienne en France: Bossuet, Adolphe Monod (1898)\nDes réputations littéraires and Victor Hugo et la grande poésie satirique en France (1901)\nQuestions esthétiques et religieuses (1906)\nEtudes sur Goethe (1906)\nVers la vérité (1909)"
tagline: "French writer (1840-1917)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Stapfer_1885_Cl.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1840-05-14"
deathDate: "1917-01-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             9.661016949152543
  historical:           4.804176
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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  country:  null
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sources:
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    title: "بول ستابفر"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Stapfer"
    title: "Paul Stapfer"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Stapfer"
    title: "Paul Stapfer"
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  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Stapfer"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump