# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-a-boodberg
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:00:03.835Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-a-boodberg"
name: "Peter A. Boodberg"
slug: "peter-a-boodberg"
description: "Peter Alexis Boodberg was a Russian-American scholar, linguist, and sinologist who taught at the University of California, Berkeley, for 40 years. Boodberg was influential in 20th century developments in the studies of the development of Chinese characters, Chinese philology, and Chinese historical phonology. He has been described as \"one of the most original and commanding scholars\" of the 20th century."
tagline: "American sinologist (1903–1972)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6b/Peter_A._Boodberg.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1903-04-08"
deathDate: "1972-06-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.677682666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump