# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-kirk
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:25:17.455Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-kirk"
name: "Robert Kirk"
slug: "robert-kirk"
description: "Robert Kirk was a minister, Gaelic scholar and folklorist, best known for The Secret Commonwealth, a treatise on fairy folklore, witchcraft, ghosts, and second sight, a type of extrasensory perception described as a phenomenon by the people of the Scottish Highlands. Folklorist Stewart Sanderson and mythologist Marina Warner called Kirk's collection of supernatural tales one of the most important and significant works on the subject of fairies and second sight. Christian philosopher and religious studies scholar David Bentley Hart has praised Kirk for writing The Secret Commonwealth to defend \"harmless Scottish country folk who innocently dabbled in the lore of their culture\" and \"found themselves arraigned by Presbyterian courts for practicing the black arts.\""
tagline: "Scottish folklorist, Bible translator, Gaelic scholar (1644-1692)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1644-12-09"
deathDate: "1692-05-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.65
  momentum:             2.981927710843373
  historical:           6.392301333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kirk_(folclorista)"
    title: "Robert Kirk (folclorista)"
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  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AA_%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%83"
    title: "روبيرت كيرك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kirk_(folklorist)"
    title: "Robert Kirk (folklorist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kirk"
    title: "Robert Kirk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kirk"
    title: "Robert Kirk"
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  - url: "https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kirk_(b%C3%A9aloideas%C3%B3ir)"
    title: "Robert Kirk (béaloideasóir)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%98_%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%A8%D7%A7_(%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%A7%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%A1%D7%98)"
    title: "רוברט קירק (פולקלוריסט)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3435583"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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