# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gerda-lerner
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:23:57.671Z

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name: "Gerda Lerner"
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description: "Gerda Hedwig Lerner was an Austrian-born American historian and woman's history author. In addition to her numerous scholarly publications, she wrote poetry, fiction, theatre pieces, screenplays, and an autobiography. She served as president of the Organization of American Historians from 1980 to 1981. In 1980, she was appointed Robinson Edwards Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she taught until retiring in 1991."
tagline: "Austrian-American women's history scholar (1920-2013)"
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gender: "female"
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birthDate: "1920-04-30"
deathDate: "2013-01-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump