# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/orestes-brownson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:12:08.161Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/orestes-brownson"
name: "Orestes Brownson"
slug: "orestes-brownson"
description: "Orestes Augustus Brownson was an American intellectual, activist, preacher, labor organizer, and writer. Brownson was also a noted Catholic convert. Brownson was a publicist, a career which spanned his affiliation with the New England Transcendentalists through his subsequent conversion to Roman Catholicism."
tagline: "American activist (1803–1876)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Orestes_Brownson_by_GPA_Healy%2C_1863.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1803-09-16"
deathDate: "1876"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.15
  momentum:             0.6445993031358885
  historical:           6.577325333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Orestes_Brownson"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orestes_Brownson"
    title: "Orestes Brownson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orestes_Brownson"
    title: "Orestes Brownson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orestes_Brownson"
    title: "Orestes Brownson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orestes_Brownson"
    title: "Orestes Brownson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orestes_Brownson"
    title: "Orestes Brownson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orestes_Brownson"
    title: "Orestes Brownson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1850093"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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