# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-friedrich-otto
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:03:28.982Z

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name: "Walter Friedrich Otto"
slug: "walter-friedrich-otto"
description: "Walter Friedrich Gustav Hermann Otto was a German classical philologist particularly known for his work on the meaning and legacy of Greek religion and mythology, especially as represented in his seminal 1929 work The Homeric Gods."
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birthDate: "1874-06-22"
deathDate: "1958-09-23"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump