# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wolfgang-benz
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:33:27.547Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wolfgang-benz"
name: "Wolfgang Benz"
slug: "wolfgang-benz"
description: "Wolfgang Benz is a German historian and antisemitism researcher. He was professor and the director of the Center for Research on Antisemitism of the Technische Universität Berlin from 1990 to 2011. He is considered to be one of the most renowned and well-known historians in modern Germany, and one of the foremost scholars on antisemitism studies. He has been referred to as the \"doyen\" of antisemitism research."
tagline: "German historian"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wolfgang_Benz_(2022).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1941-06-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm10101484"
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    title: "Вольфганг Бенц"
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    title: "Wolfgang Benz"
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    title: "Wolfgang Benz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wolfgang Benz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Benz"
    title: "Wolfgang Benz"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump