# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-ruben
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:17:45.098Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walter-ruben"
name: "Walter Ruben"
slug: "walter-ruben"
description: "Walter Ruben was a German Indologist. His main contribution was on the social history of ancient India and on the history of Indian philosophy and literature."
tagline: "German Indologist (1899–1982)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-82832-0001%2C_Berlin%2C_Namensgebung_Rabindranath-Tagore-Stra%C3%9Fe.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1899-12-26"
deathDate: "1982-11-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.35
  momentum:             15.27777777777778
  historical:           5.670662666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Ruben"
    title: "Walter Ruben"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%86"
    title: "والتر روبن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%86"
    title: "والتر روبن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Ruben_(hindolog)"
    title: "Walter Ruben (hindolog)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Ruben_(Indologist)"
    title: "Walter Ruben (Indologist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D1%83%D0%B1%D0%B5%D0%BD%2C_%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Рубен, Вальтер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2546009"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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