# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wolfgang-krause
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:42:33.850Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wolfgang-krause"
name: "Wolfgang Krause"
slug: "wolfgang-krause"
description: "Wolfgang Krause was a German philologist and linguist. A professor at the University of Göttingen for many years, Krause specialized in comparative linguistics, and was an authority on Celtic studies, Tocharian languages, Germanic studies, Old Norse and particularly runology."
tagline: "German linguist and runologist (1895–1970)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wolfgang_Krause.gif?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1895-09-18"
deathDate: "1970-08-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.28
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.540821333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Krause"
    title: "Wolfgang Krause"
    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%83%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%87"
    title: "فولفغانغ كراوزه"
    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%83%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B3"
    title: "فولفجانج كراوس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Krause_(Sprachwissenschaftler)"
    title: "Wolfgang Krause (Sprachwissenschaftler)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Krause"
    title: "Wolfgang Krause"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Krause_(linguiste)"
    title: "Wolfgang Krause (linguiste)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%83%D0%B7%D0%B5%2C_%D0%92%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%84%D0%B3%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B3"
    title: "Краузе, Вольфганг"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q84995"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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