# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-edward-soothill
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:09:42.599Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-edward-soothill"
name: "William Edward Soothill"
slug: "william-edward-soothill"
description: "William Edward Soothill, was a Methodist missionary to China who later became Professor of Chinese at the University of Oxford, and a leading British sinologist."
tagline: "British sinologist (1861–1935)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1861"
deathDate: "1935"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.1
  momentum:             3.891213389121339
  historical:           5.278618666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Edward_Soothill"
    title: "William Edward Soothill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%AB%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "ويليام ادوارد سوثيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Edward_Soothill"
    title: "William Edward Soothill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%8B%8F%E6%85%A7%E5%BB%89"
    title: "苏慧廉"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Edward_Soothill"
    title: "William Edward Soothill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Edward_Soothill"
    title: "William Edward Soothill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q449695"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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