# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/boris-kolker
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:02:20.349Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/boris-kolker"
name: "Boris Kolker"
slug: "boris-kolker"
description: "Boris Grigorevich Kolker is a language teacher, translator and advocate of the international language Esperanto. He was until 1993 a Soviet and Russian citizen and since then has been a resident and citizen of the United States residing in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1985 he was awarded a Ph.D. in linguistics from the Institute of Linguistics of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in Moscow."
tagline: "Language teacher, translator"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Boris_KOLKER.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1939-07-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             16.88405797101449
  historical:           19.73923733333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump