# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-thieme
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:32:09.479Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-thieme"
name: "Paul Thieme"
slug: "paul-thieme"
description: "Paul Thieme was a German Indologist and scholar of Vedic Sanskrit. In 1988 he was awarded the Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy for \"he added immensely to our knowledge of Vedic and other classical Indian literature and provided a solid foundation to the study of the history of Indian thought\"."
tagline: "German indologist (1905-2001)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1905-03-18"
deathDate: "2001-04-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.01
  momentum:             0.3488372093023256
  historical:           8.076278666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Paul_Thieme"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%AB%D9%8A%D9%85"
    title: "پول ثيم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Thieme"
    title: "Paul Thieme"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Thieme"
    title: "Paul Thieme"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Thieme"
    title: "Paul Thieme"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%91%E3%82%A6%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A1"
    title: "パウル・ティーメ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Thieme"
    title: "Paul Thieme"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Thieme"
    title: "Paul Thieme"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B5%2C_%D0%9F%D0%B0%D1%83%D0%BB%D1%8C"
    title: "Тиме, Пауль"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q75931"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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