# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-kaske
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:00:52.817Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-kaske"
name: "Robert Kaske"
slug: "robert-kaske"
description: "Robert Earl Kaske was an American professor of medieval literature. He spent most of his career at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, where he was the Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities, and where he founded one of the preeminent medieval studies graduate programs in North America. His published output included lengthy interpretations of Beowulf, and of poems and passages by Dante and Chaucer, and frequently constituted leading studies. Kaske particularly enjoyed solving cruxes, with articles on problematic passages in works such as Pearl, Piers Plowman, the Divine Comedy, \"The Husband's Message\", \"The Descent into Hell\", and Beowulf."
tagline: "American literary scholar (1921-1989)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Robert_Kaske_by_George_Simian.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1921-06-01"
deathDate: "1989-08-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.57
  momentum:             2.149122807017544
  historical:           5.009972
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "روبرت كاسكي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Robert Kaske"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump