# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/abel-herzberg
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:56:59.690Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/abel-herzberg"
name: "Abel Herzberg"
slug: "abel-herzberg"
description: "Abel Jacob Herzberg was a Dutch Jewish lawyer and writer, whose parents were Russian Jews who had come to the Netherlands from Lithuania. Herzberg was trained as a lawyer and began a legal practice in Amsterdam, and became known as a legal scholar also. He was a Zionist from an early age, and around the time of the outbreak of World War II he attempted to emigrate with his family to Palestine. During the war he remained active in Jewish organizations until he was interned, with his wife, in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where his legal background and status as a legal scholar earned him a seat on a prisoners' court. After their captors moved them from Bergen-Belsen, he and his wife were later liberated by the Soviets and made it back to the Netherlands, where they were reunited also with their children. He continued his legal practice in Amsterdam, though he traveled to Palestine and was offered an administrative position in newly-founded Israel."
tagline: "Dutch writer and poet"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Abel_J._Herzberg.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Netherlands"
  isoCode: "NL"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1893-09-17"
deathDate: "1989-05-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.57
  momentum:             1.646341463414634
  historical:           7.890066666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 235
sources:
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    title: "ابیل ہرزبرگ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ابيل هيرزبيرج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ائل هرزبرق"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abel_Jacob_Herzberg"
    title: "Abel Jacob Herzberg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abel_Herzberg"
    title: "Abel Herzberg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abel_Herzberg"
    title: "Abel Herzberg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%91%D7%9C_%D7%94%D7%A8%D7%A6%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%92"
    title: "אבל הרצברג"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abel_Herzberg"
    title: "Abel Herzberg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abel_Jacob_Herzberg"
    title: "Abel Jacob Herzberg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q318457"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump