# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wolfhart-westendorf
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:43:20.142Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wolfhart-westendorf"
name: "Wolfhart Westendorf"
slug: "wolfhart-westendorf"
description: "Wolfhart Westendorf was a German Egyptologist. He was a student of Hermann Grapow, and with him, was a co-author of the Grundriss der Medizin der alten Ägypter, the most extensive study of the subject of ancient Egyptian medicine done in any language. As a supplement, he later published a handbook on the subject which appeared in 1998 as Handbuch der altägyptischen Medizin in the series Handbook of Oriental Studies. He has also published many other books on Egyptology and the ancient Egyptian language, as well as a dictionary of Coptic."
tagline: "German Egyptologist (1924-2018)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wolfhart_Westendorf.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: "1924-09-18"
deathDate: "2018-02-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.18
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.003492
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "فولفهارت فيستندورف"
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    title: "Wolfhart Westendorf"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfhart_Westendorf"
    title: "Wolfhart Westendorf"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfhart_Westendorf"
    title: "Wolfhart Westendorf"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump