# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wilhelm-meyer-q71368
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:39:29.401Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wilhelm-meyer-q71368"
name: "Wilhelm Meyer"
slug: "wilhelm-meyer-q71368"
description: "Wilhelm Meyer was a German classical scholar, initially a librarian and literary scholar, who worked also on musicology. He became professor of Classical and Medieval Latin Philology at the University of Göttingen. He was known as Meyer aus Speyer, from his birthplace Speyer.\nMeyer wrote about the history of Greek and Latin hexameter poetry, famously suggesting the three Meyer rules for Hellenistic poetry."
tagline: "German classical scholar (1845-1917)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wilhelm_Meyer.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
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profileType:
  name: "Academic"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1845-04-01"
deathDate: "1917-03-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             1.111111111111111
  historical:           6.337149333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
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  country:  null
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sources:
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulielmus_Meyer"
    title: "Gulielmus Meyer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%87%D9%84%D9%85_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B1_(%D8%A3%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B0_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B9%D9%8A)"
    title: "ويلهلم ماير (أستاذ جامعي)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ويلهلم ماير (عالم لغوى كلاسيكى من المانيا)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Meyer_(Philologe)"
    title: "Wilhelm Meyer (Philologe)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Meyer_(philologist)"
    title: "Wilhelm Meyer (philologist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Meyer"
    title: "Wilhelm Meyer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Meyer"
    title: "Wilhelm Meyer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
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