# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/theodore-besterman
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:38:33.918Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/theodore-besterman"
name: "Theodore Besterman"
slug: "theodore-besterman"
description: "Theodore Deodatus Nathaniel Besterman was a Polish-born British psychical researcher, bibliographer, biographer, and translator. In 1945 he became the first editor of the Journal of Documentation. From the 1950s he devoted himself to studies of the works of Voltaire."
tagline: "Polish-English bibliographer and editor of Voltaire (1904-1976)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Theodore_Besterman_psychical_researcher.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1904-11-22"
deathDate: "1976-11-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.555555555555556
  historical:           7.409504
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Теодор Бестерман"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AB%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%B1_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "ثيودور بيستيرمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Besterman"
    title: "Theodore Besterman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Besterman"
    title: "Theodore Besterman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Besterman"
    title: "Theodore Besterman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Besterman"
    title: "Theodore Besterman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Besterman"
    title: "Theodore Besterman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD%2C_%D0%A2%D0%B5%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%BE%D1%80"
    title: "Бестерман, Теодор"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q510443"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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