# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-friesenhausen
# Generated: 2026-08-15T05:39:18.048Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-friesenhausen"
name: "David Friesenhausen"
slug: "david-friesenhausen"
description: "David ben Meir Cohen Friesenhausen (1756–1828) was a German-Hungarian astronomer, maskil, mathematician, and rabbi. Friesenhausen was one of the first proponents of Torah im Derech Eretz, a philosophy of Orthodox Judaism that formalizes a relationship between traditionally observant Judaism and the modern world. He proposed a dual curriculum of Jewish and secular studies for all rabbinic candidates, a radically innovative idea at that time. Friesenhausen wrote Mosedot Tebel and Kelil Heshbon. In the former, Friesenhausen writes in support of the Copernican heliocentrism, one of the first Jews to do so."
tagline: "Hungarian maskil, rabbi, and astronomer"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "DE"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Academic"
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birthDate: "1750"
deathDate: "1828-03-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump