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Alfred Kieffer

Luxembourgish association football player (1904-1987)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 23, 2025
Entity authorityQ13101467 ↗
Source-derived summary

Alfred Kieffer (11 January 1904 – 11 October 1987) was a Luxembourgish footballer. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1924 Summer Olympics.

Editorial summary

“Alfred Kieffer” enters the record as luxembourgish association football player (1904-1987). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Alfred, Kieffer and Luxembourgish can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1904, 1987, 1924—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1904-01-11. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Alfred, Kieffer and Luxembourgish.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Alfred Kieffer” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Alfred, Kieffer and Luxembourgish provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 23, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q13101467. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1904, 1987 and 1924.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Read biographical claims against dates, named institutions and the cited references. Distinguish a subject’s later reputation from evidence produced during their lifetime.

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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Alfred Kieffer”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Alfred Kieffer primary sources, Alfred Kieffer archive and Alfred research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Alfred Kieffer”?
  2. How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
  3. Which claims depend on a single source or contested interpretation?
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This entry incorporates text from “Alfred Kieffer” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.