Creating dynamic pages — using RDP in a template

I apologize in advance– I am obviously not understanding concepts.

We have a wiki of Illinois authors. There are 3000+ names in the system. I don’t want to build 3000+ WordPress pages that simply contain a shortcode to each link. What I thought I might do instead is create a template, feeding the title of the page to the template in the page URL as something like: http://www.illinoisauthors.org/wordpress/illinois_authors?authorid=Donald_Culross_Peattie

The template I cobbled together is simple:

<?php
get_header();
$authorID = $_GET[‘authorid’];
?>
<div class=”wrap”>
<div id=”primary” class=”content-area”>
<main id=”main” class=”site-main” role=”main”>
<?php
while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();
get_template_part( ‘template-parts/page/content’, ‘page’ );
echo “[rdp-wiki-embed url=’http://www.illinoisauthors.org/authors/&#8221; . $authorID . “‘]”;
endwhile; // End of the loop.
?>
</main><!– #main –>
</div><!– #primary –>
</div><!– .wrap –>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

Obviously, all this does is print out the shortcode as a literal string instead of actually firing off the plugin.

Could you point me to a method that would allow me to use rdp-wiki-embed dynamically?