# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-simonsen
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:23:21.724Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-simonsen"
name: "David Simonsen"
slug: "david-simonsen"
description: "David Jacob Simonsen was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. He studied Oriental languages at the University of Copenhagen, and received his rabbinical training at the Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslau, one of the centres for \"Wissenschaft des Judentums\", a movement advocating the scientific study of Jewish history, literature, and culture in addition to the classical sources of Judaism."
tagline: "Danish rabbi and academic (1853-1932)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/David_Simonsen_by_Christian_Neuhaus.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1853-03-17"
deathDate: "1932-06-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           33.12
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.40162
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%86"
    title: "ديفيد سيمونسن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Simonsen"
    title: "David Simonsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Simonsen"
    title: "David Simonsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%93%D7%95%D7%93_%D7%99%D7%A2%D7%A7%D7%91_%D7%A1%D7%99%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%A1%D7%9F"
    title: "דוד יעקב סימונסן"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Simonsen"
    title: "David Simonsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4994443"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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