# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alfred-mathieu-giard
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:24:31.968Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alfred-mathieu-giard"
name: "Alfred Mathieu Giard"
slug: "alfred-mathieu-giard"
description: "Alfred Mathieu Giard was a French zoologist born in Valenciennes. He served as a professor of zoology at the Faculty of Sciences in Lille. He specialized in parasitology, and the genus Giardia was named after him by Johann Künstler in 1882."
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country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1846-08-08"
deathDate: "1908-08-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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    title: "Альфред Матьє Жіар"
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    title: "Alfred Mathieu Giard"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Mathieu_Giard"
    title: "Alfred Mathieu Giard"
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    title: "Alfred Giard"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump