# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jacob-saphir
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:04:04.534Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jacob-saphir"
name: "Jacob Saphir"
slug: "jacob-saphir"
description: "Jacob Saphir, often pronounced Yaakov Sapir, was a 19th-century writer, ethnographer, researcher of Hebrew manuscripts, a traveler and emissary of the rabbis of Eastern European Jewish descent who settled in Jerusalem during his early life."
tagline: "Romanian Meschulach (1822–1885)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/YakovSapir.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1822"
deathDate: "1885-06-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.11
  momentum:             5.300581771170007
  historical:           7.218576000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://yi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%99%D7%A2%D7%A7%D7%91_%D7%A1%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%A8"
    title: "יעקב ספיר"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A8_%D8%B3%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "يعقوب سفير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AF%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%9E_%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BF%D1%96%D1%80"
    title: "Якаў Сапір"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Saphir"
    title: "Jacob Saphir"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Saphir"
    title: "Jacob Saphir"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Saphir"
    title: "Jacob Saphir"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%99%D7%A2%D7%A7%D7%91_%D7%A1%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%A8"
    title: "יעקב ספיר"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%B8%D1%80%2C_%D0%AF%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2"
    title: "Сапир, Яков"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q467529"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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