# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wolfgang-franke
# Generated: 2026-08-15T10:02:06.077Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wolfgang-franke"
name: "Wolfgang Franke"
slug: "wolfgang-franke"
description: "Wolfgang Leopold Friedrich Franke was a German sinologist whose research was focused on the history of the Ming dynasty and of the Chinese diaspora in Southeast Asia. He served as Chair of Sinology at the University of Hamburg for 27 years. His father Otto Franke, also a sinologist, had set up the chair in 1910."
tagline: "German sinologist and author (1912–2007)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1912-07-24"
deathDate: "2007-09-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.65
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.471922666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Franke_(Sinologe)"
    title: "Wolfgang Franke (Sinologe)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%88%D9%84%D9%81%D8%BA%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%BA_%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%83"
    title: "فولفغانغ فرانك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%88%D9%84%D9%81%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AC_%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%83_(%D9%85%D8%A4%D9%84%D9%81)"
    title: "فولفجانج فرانك (مؤلف)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%82%85%E5%90%BE%E5%BA%B7"
    title: "傅吾康"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Franke"
    title: "Wolfgang Franke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Franke"
    title: "Wolfgang Franke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2589627"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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