# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-burkert
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:14:54.271Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walter-burkert"
name: "Walter Burkert"
slug: "walter-burkert"
description: "Walter Burkert was a German scholar of Greek mythology and cult."
tagline: "German classical philologist and religious scholar (1931–2015)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1f/Walterburkert.png"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "DE"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1931-02-02"
deathDate: "2015-03-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump