# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/arturo-alfonso-schomburg
# Generated: 2026-08-15T14:53:52.697Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/arturo-alfonso-schomburg"
name: "Arturo Alfonso Schomburg"
slug: "arturo-alfonso-schomburg"
description: "Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, was a Puerto Rican historian, writer, curator, and activist, who wrote numerous books. Schomburg was a Puerto Rican of African and German descent. He moved to the United States in 1891, settling in New York City where he researched and raised awareness of the contributions that Afro-Latin Americans and African Americans have made to society. As a young man, Schomburg was told that Black people had no significant history. He spent his life disproving that notion, gathering evidence of Black achievement and celebrating the richness of Black life. He was an important intellectual figure in the Harlem Renaissance. Over the years, he collected literature, art, slave narratives, and other materials of African history, which were purchased to become the basis of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, named in his honor, at the New York Public Library (NYPL) branch in Harlem."
tagline: "Puerto Rican historian, writer and activist (1874–1938)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Arturo_Alfonso_Schomburg.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1874-01-24"
deathDate: "1938-06-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump