# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/h-w-janson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:58:17.694Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/h-w-janson"
name: "H. W. Janson"
slug: "h-w-janson"
description: "Horst Woldemar Janson, was a Russian-born German-American professor of art history best known for his History of Art, which was first published in 1962 and has since sold more than four million copies in fifteen languages. His academic specialization was the sculpture of Donatello."
tagline: "American art historian, museum director (1913-1982)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/41/Photo_of_H._W._Janson.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1913-10-04"
deathDate: "1982-09-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.05
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.81764
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%81%D1%82_%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%80_%D0%88%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Хорст Валдемар Јансон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B4._%D8%AF%D8%A8%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%86"
    title: "اتش. دبليو جانسن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst_W._Janson"
    title: "Horst W. Janson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._W._Janson"
    title: "H. W. Janson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst_Waldemar_Janson"
    title: "Horst Waldemar Janson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._W._Janson"
    title: "H. W. Janson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._W._Janson"
    title: "H. W. Janson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._W._Janson"
    title: "H. W. Janson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q215614"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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