# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/morton-smith
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:17:48.290Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/morton-smith"
name: "Morton Smith"
slug: "morton-smith"
description: "Robert Morton Smith was an American professor of ancient history at Columbia University. He is best known for his reported discovery of the Mar Saba letter, a letter attributed to Clement of Alexandria containing excerpts from a Secret Gospel of Mark, during a visit to the monastery at Mar Saba in 1958. This letter fragment has had many names, from The Secret Gospel through The Mar Saba Fragment and the Theodoros."
tagline: "American historian and academic (1915–1991)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Morton_Smith_1989.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1915-05-28"
deathDate: "1991-07-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.76
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.03456
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Morton Smith"
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    title: "Morton Smith"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump