# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-lachmann
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:49:49.706Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-lachmann"
name: "Robert Lachmann"
slug: "robert-lachmann"
description: "Robert Lachmann was a German ethnomusicologist, polyglot, orientalist and librarian. He was an expert in the musical traditions of the Middle East, a member of the Berlin School of Comparative Musicology and one of its founding fathers. After having been forced to leave Germany under the Nazis in 1935 because of his Jewish background, he emigrated to Palestine and established a rich archive of ethnomusicological recordings for the Hebrew University of Jerusalem."
tagline: "German ethnomusicologist and orientalist persecuted by Nazis because of Jewish heritage (1892-1939)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Robert_Lachmann.jpeg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1892-11-28"
deathDate: "1939-05-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.64
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.537725333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B0%D1%85%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD%2C_%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%82"
    title: "Лахман, Роберт"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%AA_%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "روبرت لاكمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Lachmann"
    title: "Robert Lachmann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Lachmann"
    title: "Robert Lachmann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Lachmann"
    title: "Robert Lachmann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%98_%D7%9C%D7%9B%D7%9E%D7%9F"
    title: "רוברט לכמן"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Lachmann"
    title: "Robert Lachmann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q92229"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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