# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wolfgang-kubin
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:17:48.293Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wolfgang-kubin"
name: "Wolfgang Kubin"
slug: "wolfgang-kubin"
description: "Wolfgang Kubin is a German poet, essayist, sinologist and translator of literary works. He is the former director of the Institute for Oriental and Asian Studies at the University of Bonn, Germany. Kubin has frequently been a guest professor at universities in China, for instance at Beijing Foreign Studies University, but also in Madison, Wisconsin, and in Jerusalem. Since 1989, Kubin has been the editor of the journals ORIENTIERUNGEN: Zeitschrift zur Kultur Asiens and Minima sinica: Zeitschrift zum chinesischen Geist."
tagline: "German writer and academic"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/2010-01-21_Wolfgang_Kubin_IMG_4531.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1945-12-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.16
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.489490666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Kubin"
    title: "Wolfgang Kubin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%84%D9%81%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AC_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "ولفجانج كوبين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Kubin"
    title: "Wolfgang Kubin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%A1%A7%E5%BD%AC"
    title: "顧彬"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Kubin"
    title: "Wolfgang Kubin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Kubin"
    title: "Wolfgang Kubin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q91446"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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