# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-ganshof-van-der-meersch
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:56:55.797Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walter-ganshof-van-der-meersch"
name: "Walter Ganshof van der Meersch"
slug: "walter-ganshof-van-der-meersch"
description: "Walter Jean Ganshof van der Meersch was a Belgian jurist and lawyer. He competed in the four-man bobsledding event at the 1928 Winter Olympics. During the German invasion of Belgium a number of people suspected of being hostile to the state were arrested on his orders and later murdered in what became known as the Abbeville massacre."
tagline: "Belgian university professor, politician, advocate general and senior crown prosecutor (1900-1993)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1900-05-18"
deathDate: "1993-09-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.98
  momentum:             22.64542936288089
  historical:           6.556265333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Ganshof_van_der_Meersch"
    title: "Walter Ganshof van der Meersch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B4%D9%88%D9%81_%DA%A4%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B4"
    title: "والتر جانشوف ڤان دير ميرستش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Jean_Ganshof_van_der_Meersch"
    title: "Walter Jean Ganshof van der Meersch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Ganshof_van_der_Meersch"
    title: "Walter Ganshof van der Meersch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%B1_%DA%AF%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%81_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%AF%D8%B1_%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%B1%D8%B4"
    title: "والتر گانسوف وان در میرش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Ganshof_van_der_Meersch"
    title: "Walter Ganshof van der Meersch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Ganshof_van_der_Meersch"
    title: "Walter Ganshof van der Meersch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2777730"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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