# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wilhelm-scherer
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:23:29.623Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wilhelm-scherer"
name: "Wilhelm Scherer"
slug: "wilhelm-scherer"
description: "Wilhelm Scherer was a German philologist and historian of literature. He was known as a positivist because he based much of his work on \"hypotheses on detailed historical research, and rooted every literary phenomenon in 'objective' historical or philological facts\". His positivism is different due to his involvement with his nationalist goals. His major contribution to the movement was his speculation that culture cycled in a six-hundred-year period."
tagline: "Austrian linguist and literature historian (1841–1886)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wilhelm_Scherer.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1841-04-26"
deathDate: "1886-08-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.49
  momentum:             16.13834850515226
  historical:           12.47987866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Scherer"
    title: "Wilhelm Scherer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%87%D9%84%D9%85_%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "ويلهلم شيرير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%87%D9%84%D9%85_%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "ويلهلم شيرير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AD%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%B9%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B2%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AE_%E0%A6%B6%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0"
    title: "ভিলহেল্ম শেরার"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Scherer"
    title: "Wilhelm Scherer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Scherer"
    title: "Wilhelm Scherer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Scherer"
    title: "Wilhelm Scherer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Scherer"
    title: "Wilhelm Scherer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Scherer"
    title: "Wilhelm Scherer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%95%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%94%D7%9C%D7%9D_%D7%A9%D7%A8%D7%A8"
    title: "וילהלם שרר"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Scherer"
    title: "Wilhelm Scherer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%95%E1%83%98%E1%83%9A%E1%83%B0%E1%83%94%E1%83%9A%E1%83%9B_%E1%83%A8%E1%83%94%E1%83%A0%E1%83%94%E1%83%A0%E1%83%98"
    title: "ვილჰელმ შერერი"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Scherer"
    title: "Wilhelm Scherer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Scherer"
    title: "Wilhelm Scherer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BC"
    title: "Шерер, Вильгельм"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q112136"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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