# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-wittek
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:43:18.947Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-wittek"
name: "Paul Wittek"
slug: "paul-wittek"
description: "Paul Wittek was an Austrian Orientalist and historian. His 1938 thesis on the rise of the Ottoman Empire, known as the ghazi thesis, argues that the driving force behind Ottoman state-building was the expansion of Islam. Until the 1980s, his theory was the most influential and dominant explanation of the formation of the Ottoman Empire."
tagline: "Austrian-English historian"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Paul_Wittek_vers_1938.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Austria"
  isoCode: "AT"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1894-01-11"
deathDate: "1978-06-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.45
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.554357333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Wittek"
    title: "Paul Wittek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%84_%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%83"
    title: "بول فيتيك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Wittek"
    title: "Paul Wittek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Wittek"
    title: "Paul Wittek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Wittek"
    title: "Paul Wittek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Wittek"
    title: "Paul Wittek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Wittek"
    title: "Paul Wittek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1448355"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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