# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yeshayahu-leibowitz
# Generated: 2026-09-04T22:03:45.535Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yeshayahu-leibowitz"
name: "Yeshayahu Leibowitz"
slug: "yeshayahu-leibowitz"
description: "Yeshayahu Leibowitz was an Israeli Orthodox Jewish public intellectual and polymath. He was a professor of biochemistry, organic chemistry, and neurophysiology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and an editor of the Encyclopaedia Hebraica, a comprehensive encyclopedia in the Hebrew language. He was known for his outspoken views on politics, religion and Jewish philosophy."
tagline: "Israeli intellectual (1903-1994)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1903-01-29"
deathDate: "1994-08-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump