# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/majer-samuel-ba-aban
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:50:31.024Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/majer-samuel-ba-aban"
name: "Majer Samuel Bałaban"
slug: "majer-samuel-ba-aban"
description: "Meir Balaban or Majer Samuel Bałaban was a historian of Polish and Galician Jews, and the founder of Polish Jewish historiography."
tagline: "Polish historian (1877–1942)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Meir_Balaban_Jewish_historian_from_Poland_(1877-1942).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1877-02-20"
deathDate: "1942-12-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.6
  momentum:             2.358974358974359
  historical:           8.292694666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%94%D1%80_%D0%91%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%B0%D0%BD"
    title: "Маєр Балабан"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "مير بالابان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D8%A8%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "مير بلابان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majer_Balaban"
    title: "Majer Balaban"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meir_Balaban"
    title: "Meir Balaban"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meir_Balaban"
    title: "Meir Balaban"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%90%D7%99%D7%A8_%D7%91%D7%9C%D7%91%D7%9F"
    title: "מאיר בלבן"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majer_Ba%C5%82aban"
    title: "Majer Bałaban"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%B0%D0%BD%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Балабан, Майер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q82559"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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