# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/philipp-spitta
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:26:35.358Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/philipp-spitta"
name: "Philipp Spitta"
slug: "philipp-spitta"
description: "Julius August Philipp Spitta was a German music historian and musicologist best known for his 1873 biography of Johann Sebastian Bach."
tagline: "German musicologist (1841–1894)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Spitta.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1841-12-27"
deathDate: "1894-04-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0.01883239171374765
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  profileCompleteness:  60
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump