# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/meir-ben-baruch
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:25:00.428Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/meir-ben-baruch"
name: "Meir ben Baruch"
slug: "meir-ben-baruch"
description: "Meir of Rothenburg \n(c. 1215 – 2 May 1293) was a German Rabbi and poet, as well as a major contributing author of the tosafot on Rashi's commentary on the Talmud. He is also known as Meir ben Baruch, and by the Hebrew language acronym Maharam of Rothenburg. He was referred to by Rabbi Menachem Meiri as the \"greatest Jewish leader of Zarfat\" alive at the time."
tagline: "German rabbi and poet (c.1215–1293)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/2006-Judenfriedhof_Worms_1.jpg/330px-2006-Judenfriedhof_Worms_1.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1215"
deathDate: "1293-04-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.62
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.393669333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%B8%D1%80_%D0%B8%D0%B7_%D0%A0%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B1%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B0"
    title: "Меир из Ротенбурга"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meir_z_Rothenburku"
    title: "Meir z Rothenburku"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meir_von_Rothenburg"
    title: "Meir von Rothenburg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meir_of_Rothenburg"
    title: "Meir of Rothenburg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me%C3%AFr_de_Rothenburg"
    title: "Meïr de Rothenburg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%94%D7%A8%22%D7%9D_%D7%9E%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%98%D7%A0%D7%91%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%92"
    title: "מהר\"ם מרוטנבורג"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meir_ben_B%C3%A1ruk"
    title: "Meir ben Báruk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q72163"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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