# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wilhelm-schmidt
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:46:01.838Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/wilhelm-schmidt"
name: "Wilhelm Schmidt"
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description: "Wilhelm Schmidt was a German-Austrian Catholic priest, linguist and ethnologist. He presided over the Fourth International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences that was held at Vienna in 1952."
tagline: "German anthropologist, linguist and historian of religion (1868–1954)"
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birthDate: "1868-02-16"
deathDate: "1954-02-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump