# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/august-busck
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:10:28.297Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/august-busck"
name: "August Busck"
slug: "august-busck"
description: "Augustus Busck was a Danish-American entomologist with the United States Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Entomology, stationed in the U.S. National Museum. He is best known for his work with microlepidoptera, of which he described over 600 species. His collections of Lepidoptera from North America and the Panama Canal Zone are held by the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C."
tagline: "Danish entomologist (1870–1944)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1870-02-18"
deathDate: "1944-03-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.48
  momentum:             16.42735042735043
  historical:           5.469078666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus_Busck"
    title: "Augustus Busck"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA_%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%83"
    title: "اوجوسانت بوسك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Busck"
    title: "August Busck"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Busck"
    title: "August Busck"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Busck"
    title: "August Busck"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%83%D1%81%D0%BA%2C_%D0%90%D1%83%D0%B3%D1%83%D1%81%D1%82"
    title: "Буск, Аугуст"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4820667"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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