# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mattityahu-strashun
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:47:55.168Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mattityahu-strashun"
name: "Mattityahu Strashun"
slug: "mattityahu-strashun"
description: "Mattityahu Strashun was a Lithuanian Talmudist, Midrashic scholar, book collector, communal leader, and philanthropist. He amassed a significant private collection of books and rare manuscripts which formed the basis for the Strashun Library of Vilnius, which operated from 1892 to 1941."
tagline: "Russian Talmudic scholar and maskil"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Matityahu_Straszun_(FL12175546).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1817-10-01"
deathDate: "1885-12-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.438793613246598
  historical:           8.073254666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "מתתיהו שטראשון"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ماتيتياهو ستراشون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Mattityahu Strashun"
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    title: "Mattityahu Strashun"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Mattityahu Strashun"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "מתתיהו שטראשון"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Mattityahu Strashun"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matiyahu_Straszun"
    title: "Matiyahu Straszun"
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    title: "Страшун, Матисьягу"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump