# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hermann-schapira
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:22:32.617Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hermann-schapira"
name: "Hermann Schapira"
slug: "hermann-schapira"
description: "Zvi Hermann Schapira, or Hermann Hirsch Schapira, was a Lithuanian rabbi, mathematician at the University of Heidelberg, and Zionist. He was the first to suggest founding a Jewish National Fund for the purchase of land in Palestine."
tagline: "Russian mathematician (1840-1898)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hermann_Schapira_(HeidICON_28896)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1840-08-04"
deathDate: "1898-05-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.48063466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Шапира, Герман"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "هيرمان شبيرا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Schapira"
    title: "Hermann Schapira"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Schapira"
    title: "Hermann Schapira"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Tzvi Herman Shapira"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "צבי הרמן שפירא"
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  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Schapira"
    title: "Hermann Schapira"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Schapira"
    title: "Hermann Schapira"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Schapira"
    title: "Hermann Schapira"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q931272"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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