# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rolf-stein
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:15:43.145Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rolf-stein"
name: "Rolf Stein"
slug: "rolf-stein"
description: "Rolf Alfred Stein was a German-born French Sinologist and Tibetologist. He contributed in particular to the study of the Epic of King Gesar, on which he wrote two books, and the use of Chinese sources in Tibetan history. He was the first scholar to correctly identify the Minyag of Tibetan sources with the Xixia of Chinese sources."
tagline: "French tibetologist (1911–1999)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ed/Rolf_Alfred_Stein.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1911-06-13"
deathDate: "1999-10-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.91
  momentum:             3.125000000000001
  historical:           9.206444
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Штайн, Рольф Альфред"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "رولف شتاين"
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    title: "رولف شتاين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "রল্ফ আলফ্রেড স্টেইন"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolf_Stein"
    title: "Rolf Stein"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolf_A._Stein"
    title: "Rolf A. Stein"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolf_Stein"
    title: "Rolf Stein"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolf_Stein"
    title: "Rolf Stein"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolf_Stein"
    title: "Rolf Stein"
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    title: "Rolf Stein"
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  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolf_Alfred_Stein"
    title: "Rolf Alfred Stein"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1852214"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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