# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wolfgang-schluchter
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:51:47.087Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wolfgang-schluchter"
name: "Wolfgang Schluchter"
slug: "wolfgang-schluchter"
description: "Wolfgang Schluchter is a German sociologist and, as of 2006, professor emeritus at Heidelberg University. Schluchter is recognized as a leading sociologist of religion and an authority on the history of sociological theory, in particular on the work of Max Weber. He was one of the editors of the Max Weber-Gesamtausgabe, alongside Wolfgang J. Mommsen and Johannes Winckelmann. Gangolf Hübinger succeeded Mommsen after he died in 2004. The project was completed in June 2020, with forty-seven volumes. Schluchter was visiting professor at several universities worldwide, including the University of Pittsburgh, The New School for Social Research, and the University of California, Berkeley."
tagline: "German sociologist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1938-04-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.26086956521739
  historical:           5.475270666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wolfgang Schluchter"
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    title: "ولفجانج ستشلوتشتير"
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    title: "沃爾夫岡·施魯赫特"
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  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Schluchter"
    title: "Wolfgang Schluchter"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump