# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lev-nussimbaum
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:19:47.897Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lev-nussimbaum"
name: "Lev Nussimbaum"
slug: "lev-nussimbaum"
description: "Lev Nussimbaum, who wrote under the pen names Essad Bey and Kurban Said, was a writer and journalist, born in Kiev to a Jewish family. He lived there and in Baku during his childhood before fleeing the Bolsheviks in 1920 at the age of 14. In 1922, while living in Germany, he obtained a certificate claiming that he had converted to Islam in the presence of the imam of the Turkish embassy in Berlin. He created a niche for himself in the competitive European literary world by writing about topics that Westerners, in general, knew little about - the Caucasus, the Russian Empire, the Bolshevik Revolution, newly discovered oil, and Islam. He wrote under the name of Essad Bey in German."
tagline: "German-language writer of the Jewish origion (1905–1942)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nussimbaum.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1905-10-20"
deathDate: "1942-08-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.68
  momentum:             1.551849166062364
  historical:           14.72401466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Лев Нуссимбаум"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "لف نوسيمباوم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "لف نوسيمباوم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "لف نوسیمباوم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C9%99h%C9%99mm%C9%99d_%C6%8Fs%C9%99d_b%C9%99y"
    title: "Məhəmməd Əsəd bəy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essad_Bey"
    title: "Essad Bey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev_Nussimbaum"
    title: "Lev Nussimbaum"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essad_Bey"
    title: "Essad Bey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev_Nussimbaum"
    title: "Lev Nussimbaum"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev_Nussimbaum"
    title: "Lev Nussimbaum"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9C%D7%91_%D7%A0%D7%95%D7%A1%D7%99%D7%9E%D7%91%D7%90%D7%95%D7%9D"
    title: "לב נוסימבאום"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev_Nussimbaum"
    title: "Lev Nussimbaum"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essad_Bey"
    title: "Essad Bey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lew_Nussimbaum"
    title: "Lew Nussimbaum"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D1%83%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%83%D0%BC%2C_%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%BE"
    title: "Нуссимбаум, Лео"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev_Nussimbaum"
    title: "Lev Nussimbaum"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%95%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%B4_%D0%91%D0%B5%D1%98"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev_Nussimbaum"
    title: "Lev Nussimbaum"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q958557"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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