# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wolfgang-mieder
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:52:56.626Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wolfgang-mieder"
name: "Wolfgang Mieder"
slug: "wolfgang-mieder"
description: "Wolfgang Mieder is a retired professor of German and folklore who taught for 50 years at the University of Vermont, in Burlington, Vermont. He is a graduate of Olivet College (BA), the University of Michigan (MA), and Michigan State University (PhD). He has been a guest speaker at the University of Freiburg in Germany, the country where he was born."
tagline: "German linguist, paremiologist (born 1944)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wolfgang_Mieder.jpg?width=1200"
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: "1944-02-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.25
  momentum:             15
  historical:           7.009756
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%92%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%84%D0%B3%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B3"
    title: "Мидер, Вольфганг"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%88%D9%84%D9%81%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AC_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%B1"
    title: "وولفجانج مايدر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Mieder"
    title: "Wolfgang Mieder"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Mieder"
    title: "Wolfgang Mieder"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Mieder"
    title: "Wolfgang Mieder"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Mieder"
    title: "Wolfgang Mieder"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Mieder"
    title: "Wolfgang Mieder"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Mieder"
    title: "Wolfgang Mieder"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q90632"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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