# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wolfgang-welsch
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:15:17.474Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wolfgang-welsch"
name: "Wolfgang Welsch"
slug: "wolfgang-welsch"
description: "Wolfgang Welsch is a German philosopher. He is professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Jena. He lives in Berlin, and has taught at the Free University of Berlin and Humboldt University of Berlin. Welsch has also taught in the United States at Stanford University and Emory University. His main field of research is aesthetics."
tagline: "German philosopher and educationist"
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country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1946-10-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Вольфганг Вельш"
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    title: "Wolfgang Welsch"
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    title: "Wolfgang Welsch"
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    title: "Вельш, Вольфганг"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump