# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-morfill
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:04:02.582Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-morfill"
name: "William Morfill"
slug: "william-morfill"
description: "William Richard Morfill FBA was Professor of Russian and the other Slavonic languages at the University of Oxford from 1900 until his death. He was the first professor of Russian in Britain, and his house in North Oxford was marked with a commemorative blue plaque by the Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board in 2009."
tagline: "Professor of Russian and the other Slavonic languages at the University of Oxford (1834–1909)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Richard_Morfill_Rothenstein.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1834-11-17"
deathDate: "1909-11-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           34.83
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.602412
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "ويليام مورفيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Morfill"
    title: "William Morfill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%A3%E1%83%98%E1%83%9A%E1%83%98%E1%83%90%E1%83%9B_%E1%83%A0%E1%83%98%E1%83%A9%E1%83%90%E1%83%A0%E1%83%93_%E1%83%9B%E1%83%9D%E1%83%A0%E1%83%A4%E1%83%98%E1%83%9A%E1%83%98"
    title: "უილიამ რიჩარდ მორფილი"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%84%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BB%2C_%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%BC_%D0%A0%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4"
    title: "Морфилл, Уильям Ричард"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D1%96%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%BC_%D0%A0%D1%96%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4_%D0%9C%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%84%D1%96%D0%BB%D0%BB"
    title: "Вільям Річард Морфілл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8015798"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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