# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wilhelm-brambach
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:23:21.030Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wilhelm-brambach"
name: "Wilhelm Brambach"
slug: "wilhelm-brambach"
description: "Wilhelm Brambach was a German classical scholar, music historian, and librarian. He was the son of organ builder Franz Jacob Brachmann and the brother of composer and choral conductor Caspar Joseph Brambach. He studied classical philology with Friedrich Ritschl and musicology with Heinrich Breidenstein at the University of Bonn. He worked as a librarian at Bonn University from 1862 to 1866, after which he was appointed Chief Librarian at the University Library Freiburg in 1866, a position he held for the next 38 years. He also con-currently served as a full professor of philology at the University of Freiburg from 1868 until his retirement in 1904."
tagline: "German musicologist (1841–1932)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wilhelm_Brambach.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1841-12-17"
deathDate: "1932-02-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.468286666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Brambach"
    title: "Wilhelm Brambach"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%87%D9%84%D9%85_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AE"
    title: "فيلهلم برامباخ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Brambach"
    title: "Wilhelm Brambach"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Brambach"
    title: "Wilhelm Brambach"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulielmus_Brambach"
    title: "Gulielmus Brambach"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%85%2C_%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BC"
    title: "Брамбах, Вильгельм"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q87619"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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