# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bruno-messerli
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:20:09.531Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bruno-messerli"
name: "Bruno Messerli"
slug: "bruno-messerli"
description: "Bruno Messerli was a Swiss geographer and university professor who focused on high mountains and highland-lowland linkages. He was appointed Full Professor of Geomorphology in 1968 by the University of Bern, where he taught and carried out research until his retirement in 1996. He contributed significantly to the inclusion of a mountain agenda, Chapter 13 — Managing Fragile Ecosystems — Sustainable Mountain Development in Agenda 21, the official action plan of the\nUnited Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), also known as the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit, the Rio Summit, the Rio Conference, and the Earth Summit, held in Rio de Janeiro from 3 to 14 June in 1992."
tagline: "Swiss geographer and university professor (1931-2019)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bruno_Messerli-FIG_2001.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Switzerland"
  isoCode: "CH"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1931-09-17"
deathDate: "2019-02-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.59
  momentum:             14.83388704318937
  historical:           6.537041333333335
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2623642/"
    handle:    "nm2623642"
sources:
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    title: "Bruno Messerli"
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    title: "برونو ميسيرلي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Bruno Messerli"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Messerli"
    title: "Bruno Messerli"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Messerli"
    title: "Bruno Messerli"
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  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%96%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%8E%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A1%E3%83%83%E3%82%B5%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AA"
    title: "ブルーノ・メッサーリ"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump