# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-m-baumgarten
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:50:48.690Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joseph-m-baumgarten"
name: "Joseph M. Baumgarten"
slug: "joseph-m-baumgarten"
description: "Joseph M. Baumgarten was an Austrian-born Semitic scholar known for his knowledge in the field of Jewish legal texts from biblical law to Mishnaic law and including the legal texts among the Dead Sea Scrolls.\nBaumgarten immigrated to the United States with his family in 1939 as a result of the Anschluss, Germany's occupation of Austria in 1938. In 1950, he was ordained a rabbi at Mesivta Torah Vodaath, a prominent Brooklyn yeshiva. He married Naomi Rosenberg in 1953."
tagline: "American Biblical scholar (1928-2008)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Austria"
  isoCode: "AT"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1928-09-07"
deathDate: "2008-12-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.670158666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Joseph M. Baumgarten"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%81_%D8%A5%D9%85._%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%85%D8%BA%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%86"
    title: "جوزيف إم. بومغارتن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جوزيف ام. بومجارتن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Baumgarten"
    title: "Joseph Baumgarten"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_M._Baumgarten"
    title: "Joseph M. Baumgarten"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%99%D7%95%D7%A1%D7%A3_%D7%90%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%9E%D7%9C%D7%9A_%D7%91%D7%90%D7%95%D7%9E%D7%92%D7%A8%D7%98%D7%9F"
    title: "יוסף אלימלך באומגרטן"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3810180"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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