# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/raphael-levi-hannover
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:48:42.826Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/raphael-levi-hannover"
name: "Raphael Levi Hannover"
slug: "raphael-levi-hannover"
description: "Raphael Levi Hannover was a German Jewish mathematician and astronomer. The son of Jacob Joseph, Hannover was born at Weikersheim, Franconia in 1685. He was educated at the Jewish school of Hanover and at the yeshivah of Frankfurt am Main, and became bookkeeper in the firm of Simon Wolf Oppenheimer in Hanover. Here he attracted the attention of Leibniz, and for a number of years was one of his most distinguished pupils and lived by him for three years, and afterward teacher of mathematics, astronomy, and natural philosophy. He also corresponded with Moses Mendelssohn."
tagline: "German astronomer and mathematician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/RLHannover.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1685"
deathDate: "1779"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.19
  momentum:             4.199373756867997
  historical:           6.351297333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Леви Ганновер, Рафаил"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Raphael Levi Hannover"
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    title: "رافائيل ليفي هانوفر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "رافائيل ليفى هانوفر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafael_Levi"
    title: "Rafael Levi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael_Levi_Hannover"
    title: "Raphael Levi Hannover"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A8%D7%A4%D7%90%D7%9C_%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%99"
    title: "רפאל לוי"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump