# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wolfgang-helck
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:03:49.787Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wolfgang-helck"
name: "Wolfgang Helck"
slug: "wolfgang-helck"
description: "Hans Wolfgang Helck was a German Egyptologist, considered one of the most important Egyptologists of the 20th century. From 1956 until his retirement in 1979 he was a professor at the University of Hamburg. He remained active after his retirement and together with Wolfhart Westendorf published the German Lexikon der Ägyptologie, completed in 1992. He published many books and articles on the history of Egyptian and Near Eastern culture. He was a member of the German Archaeological Institute and a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences."
tagline: "German Egyptologist (1914-1993)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1914-09-16"
deathDate: "1993-08-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump