# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/werner-hamacher
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:13:13.855Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/werner-hamacher"
name: "Werner Hamacher"
slug: "werner-hamacher"
description: "Werner Hamacher was a German literary critic and theorist influenced by deconstruction. Hamacher studied philosophy, comparative literature and religious studies at the Free University of Berlin and the École Normale Supérieure (Paris), where he met and came to know Jacques Derrida. From 1998 to 2013 he was a Professor in the University of Frankfurt's Institute for General and Comparative Literature, and since 2003 he was on the faculty of the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland."
tagline: "German literary critic and theorist influenced by deconstruction (1948-2017)"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "DE"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1948-04-27"
deathDate: "2017-07-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump