# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/abraham-ganz
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:26:18.007Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/abraham-ganz"
name: "Ábrahám Ganz"
slug: "abraham-ganz"
description: "Ábrahám Ganz was a Swiss-born iron manufacturer, machine and technical engineer, entrepreneur, father of Ganz Works. He was the founder and the manager of the company that he made the flagship of the Hungarian economy in the 19th century. Despite his early death in 1867 the company remained one of the strongest manufacturing enterprise in Austria-Hungary. Many famous engineers worked at Ganz Works inter alia Károly Zipernowsky, Ottó Bláthy, Miksa Déri, András Mechwart, Kálmán Kandó, Donát Bánki, János Csonka and Theodore von Kármán and several world-famous inventions were done there, like the first railway electric traction, or the invention of the roller mill, the carburetor, the transformer and the Bánki-Csonka engine."
tagline: "Hungarian engineer (1814–1867)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ganz_abraham.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Switzerland"
  isoCode: "CH"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1814-02-06"
deathDate: "1867-12-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.07
  momentum:             1.318681318681319
  historical:           12.014904
  currentAttention:     7.326007326007327
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Ганц, Абрахам"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ابراهام جانز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81brah%C3%A1m_Ganz"
    title: "Ábrahám Ganz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81brah%C3%A1m_Ganz"
    title: "Ábrahám Ganz"
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  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81brah%C3%A1m_Ganz"
    title: "Ábrahám Ganz"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81brah%C3%A1m_Ganz"
    title: "Ábrahám Ganz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%85_%DA%AF%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B2"
    title: "آبراهام گانز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81brah%C3%A1m_Ganz"
    title: "Ábrahám Ganz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganz_%C3%81brah%C3%A1m"
    title: "Ganz Ábrahám"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ガンツ・アーブラハーム"
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    title: "Ábrahám Ganz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81brah%C3%A1m_Ganz"
    title: "Ábrahám Ganz"
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    title: "Ábrahám Ganz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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