# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/albert-samuel-gatschet
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:56:42.355Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/albert-samuel-gatschet"
name: "Albert Samuel Gatschet"
slug: "albert-samuel-gatschet"
description: "Albert Louis Samuel Gatschet was a Swiss-American linguist, philologist, and ethnologist. He is best known for his contributions to the study of the Indigenous peoples and languages of North America. His work included analyses of almost a hundred different languages and preserved many on the brink of extinction."
tagline: "Swiss ethnologist, linguist (1832-1907)"
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gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Switzerland"
  isoCode: "CH"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Academic"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1832-10-03"
deathDate: "1907-03-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump