# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-orbeli
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:00:38.817Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joseph-orbeli"
name: "Joseph Orbeli"
slug: "joseph-orbeli"
description: "Joseph Orbeli was a Soviet-Armenian orientalist, public figure and academician who specialized in medieval history of Transcaucasia and administered the Hermitage Museum in Leningrad from 1934 to 1951. He was the founder and first president of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences (1943–47)."
tagline: "Soviet orientalist (1887–1961)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Iosif_Orbeli_ArmenianStamps_2012.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: "1887-03-08"
deathDate: "1961-02-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.1954397394136808
  historical:           16.11641866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Joseph Orbeli"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump