# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wolfgang-ernst
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:08:20.379Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wolfgang-ernst"
name: "Wolfgang Ernst"
slug: "wolfgang-ernst"
description: "Wolfgang Ernst is a German media theorist. He is Professor for Media Theories at Humboldt University of Berlin and a major exponent of media archaeology as a method of scholarly inquiry."
tagline: "German media scholar and historian"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wolfgang-Ernst-by_Maximilian_Sch%C3%B6nherr_2013.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1959"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.03
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.478078666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Ernst"
    title: "Wolfgang Ernst"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%88%D9%84%D9%81%D8%BA%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%BA_%D8%A5%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%B3%D8%AA"
    title: "فولفغانغ إرنست"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%88%D9%84%D9%81%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AC_%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%B3%D8%AA"
    title: "فولفجانج ارنست"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Ernst"
    title: "Wolfgang Ernst"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Ernst_(Medienwissenschaftler)"
    title: "Wolfgang Ernst (Medienwissenschaftler)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Ernst_(media_theorist)"
    title: "Wolfgang Ernst (media theorist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q126003"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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