# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-barthel
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:17:49.373Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-barthel"
name: "Thomas Barthel"
slug: "thomas-barthel"
description: "Thomas Sylvester Barthel was a German ethnologist and epigrapher who is best known for cataloguing the undeciphered rongorongo script of Easter Island."
tagline: "German Mesoamericanist (1923-1997)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fc/Barthelthomas.jpg/330px-Barthelthomas.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "DE"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1923-01-04"
deathDate: "1997-04-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.942857142857143
  historical:           9.807524
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Thomas Barthel"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Barthel"
    title: "Thomas Barthel"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_S._Barthel"
    title: "Thomas S. Barthel"
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    title: "Thomas Sylvester Barthel"
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    title: "Thomas Barthel"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump