# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jacques-barzun
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:29:49.406Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jacques-barzun"
name: "Jacques Barzun"
slug: "jacques-barzun"
description: "Jacques Martin Barzun was a French-born American historian known for his studies of the history of ideas and cultural history. He wrote about a wide range of subjects, including baseball, mystery novels, and classical music, and was also known as a philosopher of education. In the book Teacher in America (1945), Barzun influenced the training of schoolteachers in the United States."
tagline: "French-American historian (1907–2012)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jacques_barzun.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1907-11-30"
deathDate: "2012-10-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump