# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-goffart
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:04:30.820Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walter-goffart"
name: "Walter Goffart"
slug: "walter-goffart"
description: "Walter André Goffart was a German-born American historian who specialized in Late Antiquity and the European Middle Ages. He taught for many years as a professor at the University of Toronto and at the Centre for Medieval Studies from 1960 to 1999, and was a senior research scholar at Yale University. He was the author of monographs on a ninth-century forgery, late Roman taxation, four \"barbarian\" historians, and historical atlases."
tagline: "American historian (1934-2025)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1934-02-22"
deathDate: "2025-02-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.1875
  historical:           7.215912
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "والتر جوفارت"
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    title: "Walter Goffart"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Goffart"
    title: "Walter Goffart"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Goffart"
    title: "Walter Goffart"
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  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%BE%D1%84%D1%84%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82%2C_%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Гоффарт, Вальтер"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump