# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/josef-horovitz
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:42:14.120Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/josef-horovitz"
name: "Josef Horovitz"
slug: "josef-horovitz"
description: "Josef Horovitz was a Jewish German orientalist. A son of Markus Horovitz (1844–1910), an Orthodox rabbi, Josef Horovitz studied with Eduard Sachau at the University of Berlin and was there since 1902 as a docent. From 1907 to 1915, he worked in India, at the Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College at Aligarh and taught Arabic at the request of the Indian government curator for Islamic inscriptions. In this role, he prepared the collection Epigraphia Indo-Moslemica (1909–1912). After his return to Germany he was from 1914 until his death professor of Semitic languages at the Oriental Seminar of the University of Frankfurt."
tagline: "German Orientalist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1874-07-26"
deathDate: "1931-02-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.17
  momentum:             2.809523809523809
  historical:           5.676350666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Horovitz"
    title: "Josef Horovitz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%81_%D9%87%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%81%D8%AA%D8%B3"
    title: "جوزيف هوروفتس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%81_%D9%87%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%81%D8%AA%D8%B3"
    title: "چوزيف هوروفتس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Horovitz"
    title: "Josef Horovitz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Horovitz"
    title: "Josef Horovitz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%99%D7%95%D7%A1%D7%A3_%D7%94%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%91%D7%99%D7%A5"
    title: "יוסף הורוביץ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q324185"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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