# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/boris-hambourg
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:45:59.342Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/boris-hambourg"
name: "Boris Hambourg"
slug: "boris-hambourg"
description: "Boris Hambourg was a Russian and Canadian cellist and music educator who settled in Toronto, Ontario, and made his career in the United States, Canada, England and Europe. With his father, the pianist Michael Hambourg, and his brother, the violinist Jan Hambourg, he co-founded the Hambourg Conservatory of Music in 1911. He succeeded his father as director of that school in 1916; remaining in that position until 1951."
tagline: "Canadian-Russian cellist (1885-1954)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Boris_Hambourg_with_cello_(I0014515).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1885-01-08"
deathDate: "1954-11-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.2
  momentum:             15
  historical:           5.003204
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Hambourg"
    title: "Boris Hambourg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Hambourg"
    title: "Boris Hambourg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Hambourg"
    title: "Boris Hambourg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Hambourg"
    title: "Boris Hambourg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B1%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B3%2C_%D0%91%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81_%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Гамбург, Борис Михайлович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q893672"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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