# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-austerlitz
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:44:48.850Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-austerlitz"
name: "Robert Austerlitz"
slug: "robert-austerlitz"
description: "Robert Paul Austerlitz was a Romanian-American linguist. Born in Bucharest, he emigrated to the United States in 1938. In June 1950, he received a Master of Arts from Columbia University, where he studied under André Martinet. With funding from the Ford Foundation, he studied the Uralic and Altaic languages at the University of Helsinki from 1951 to 1953 and Nivkh and Hokkaido at the University of Tokyo from 1953 to 1954."
tagline: "Romanian-American linguist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1923-12-13"
deathDate: "1994-09-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.2
  momentum:             15
  historical:           5.535529333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Austerlitz"
    title: "Robert Austerlitz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B2"
    title: "روبيرت اوستيرليتز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Austerlitz"
    title: "Robert Austerlitz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Austerlitz"
    title: "Robert Austerlitz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Austerlitz"
    title: "Robert Austerlitz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Austerlitz"
    title: "Robert Austerlitz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Austerlitz"
    title: "Robert Austerlitz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3440619"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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