# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alfred-balachowsky
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:02:21.580Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alfred-balachowsky"
name: "Alfred Balachowsky"
slug: "alfred-balachowsky"
description: "Alfred Serge Balachowsky was a French entomologist born in Russia. He specialised in Coccoidea but also worked on Coleoptera. Balachowsky worked at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN). In 1948 he was elected president of the Société entomologique de France. From 1962 to 1974 he was chair of Entomology at MNHN."
tagline: "French entomologist born in Russia (1901–1983)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alfred-Serge_Balachowsky.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
birthDate: "1901-08-15"
deathDate: "1983-12-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.55
  momentum:             0.3937007874015748
  historical:           7.209504
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Balachowsky"
    title: "Alfred Balachowsky"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Balachowsky"
    title: "Alfred Balachowsky"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Balachowsky"
    title: "Alfred Balachowsky"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Balachowsky"
    title: "Alfred Balachowsky"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Balachowsky"
    title: "Alfred Balachowsky"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Balachowsky"
    title: "Alfred Balachowsky"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%85%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%2C_%D0%90%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%84%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B4"
    title: "Балаховски, Альфред"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Serge_Balachowsky"
    title: "Alfred Serge Balachowsky"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2340504"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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