# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-eisler
# Generated: 2026-08-12T17:22:52.270Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-eisler"
name: "Robert Eisler"
slug: "robert-eisler"
description: "Robert Eisler was an Austrian Jewish polymath who wrote about the topics of mythology, comparative religion, the Gospels, monetary policy, art history, history of science, psychoanalysis, politics, astrology, history of currency, and value theory. He lectured at the Sorbonne and Oxford, served briefly on the International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation in Paris after World War I, and spent fifteen months imprisoned in Dachau and Buchenwald, where he developed heart disease. He is best remembered today for advancing a new picture of the historical Jesus based on his interpretation of the Slavonic Josephus manuscript tradition, proposing a dual currency system to control inflation, and arguing for a prehistoric derivation of human violence in Man into Wolf: An Anthropological Interpretation of Sadism, Masochism, and Lycanthropy. His life and work intersected with those of Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Alois Riegl, Gilbert Murray, Karl Popper, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, G. R. S. Mead, Aby Warburg, Fritz Saxl, Gershom Scholem, Oskar Goldberg, Martin Buber, and Walter Benjamin."
tagline: "Austrian art historian and polymath (1882-1949)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/FL12169981.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Austria"
  isoCode: "AT"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1882"
deathDate: "1949"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.681786666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Eisler"
    title: "Robert Eisler"
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    title: "Robert Eisler"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Eisler"
    title: "Robert Eisler"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Eisler"
    title: "Robert Eisler"
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  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%98_%D7%90%D7%99%D7%99%D7%96%D7%9C%D7%A8"
    title: "רוברט אייזלר"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q89993"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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