# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/urs-jaeggi
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:03:57.993Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/urs-jaeggi"
name: "Urs Jaeggi"
slug: "urs-jaeggi"
description: "Urs Jaeggi was a Swiss sociologist, writer, and visual artist. He taught in Münster, Bern, Bochum, New York, and Berlin, and from 1972 to 1993 was a professor at the Free University of Berlin. He became known through his book Macht und Herrschaft in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, was associated with the student movement of the 1960s, and won the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in 1981."
tagline: "Swiss sociologist, painter, and author (1931-2021)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Urs_Jaeggi_Mexico_D.F..jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Switzerland"
  isoCode: "CH"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1931-06-23"
deathDate: "2021-02-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.62
  momentum:             12.51094835397161
  historical:           6.627288
  currentAttention:     63.85281385281385
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://als.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urs_Jaeggi"
    title: "Urs Jaeggi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%B3_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%AC%D9%89"
    title: "اورس جايجى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urs_Jaeggi"
    title: "Urs Jaeggi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urs_Jaeggi"
    title: "Urs Jaeggi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urs_Jaeggi"
    title: "Urs Jaeggi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urs_Jaeggi"
    title: "Urs Jaeggi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urs_Jaeggi"
    title: "Urs Jaeggi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q118760"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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