# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/salo-wittmayer-baron
# Generated: 2026-08-15T01:29:32.816Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/salo-wittmayer-baron"
name: "Salo Wittmayer Baron"
slug: "salo-wittmayer-baron"
description: "Salo Wittmayer Baron was a Galician-born American historian, described as \"the greatest Jewish historian of the 20th century\". Baron taught at Columbia University from 1930 until his retirement in 1963."
tagline: "American historian (1895–1989)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Salo_Wittmayer_Baron_at_Eichman_trial1961_(cropped2).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1895-05-26"
deathDate: "1989-11-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.89341466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump