# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-goffin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:38:09.111Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-goffin"
name: "Robert Goffin"
slug: "robert-goffin"
description: "Robert Goffin was a Belgian lawyer, author, and poet, credited with writing the first \"serious\" book on jazz, Aux Frontières du Jazz in 1932."
tagline: "Author, lawyer, poet (1898-1984)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Robert_Goffin.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1898-05-21"
deathDate: "1984-06-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.03
  momentum:             10
  historical:           9.220196
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Robert Goffin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Robert Goffin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Goffin"
    title: "Robert Goffin"
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  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%B1_%DA%AF%D9%88%D9%81%D9%86"
    title: "روبر گوفن"
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    title: "Robert Goffin"
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    title: "Robert Goffin"
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    title: "Robert Goffin"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump