# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-kuhn
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:10:08.254Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walter-kuhn"
name: "Walter Kuhn"
slug: "walter-kuhn"
description: "Walter Kuhn, was an Austrian-born German folklorist, historian and Ostforscher. Prior to World War II, Kuhn belonged to the German minority in Poland. His academic work specialized in German minorities outside Germany, particularly in the area of Ukraine, especially Volhynia. He focused his research on German language islands. In 1936, Kuhn moved to Germany to take a professorship at the University of Breslau. In 1940, he joined the Nazi Party. During the war, he advised various Nazi plans of ethnic cleansing aimed at Jews, Poles and their replacement by German settlers from further east."
tagline: "German historian (1903–1983)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1903-09-27"
deathDate: "1983-08-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.94
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.674406666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Kuhn_(Volkskundler)"
    title: "Walter Kuhn (Volkskundler)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%86_(%D8%A3%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B0_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B9%D9%8A)"
    title: "والتر كون (أستاذ جامعي)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "والتر كوهين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Kuhn"
    title: "Walter Kuhn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Kuhn"
    title: "Walter Kuhn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Kuhn"
    title: "Walter Kuhn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q97216"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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