# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-f-albright
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:49:55.710Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/william-f-albright"
name: "William F. Albright"
slug: "william-f-albright"
description: "William Foxwell Albright was an American archaeologist, biblical scholar, philologist, and expert on ceramics. He is considered \"one of the twentieth century's most influential American biblical scholars,\" having become known to the public in 1948 for his role in the authentication of the Dead Sea Scrolls. He was a leading theorist and practitioner of biblical archaeology, and is regarded as the founder of the biblical archaeology movement. Albright served as the W. W. Spence Professor of Semitic Languages at Johns Hopkins University from 1930 to 1958 and was the Director of the American School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem for several terms between 1922 and 1936."
tagline: "American archaeologist, biblical scholar, philologist, and expert on ceramics (1891-1971)"
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birthDate: "1891-05-24"
deathDate: "1971-09-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump