# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/carl-gassner
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:56:17.284Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/carl-gassner"
name: "Carl Gassner"
slug: "carl-gassner"
description: "Carl Gassner was a German physician, scientist and inventor, better known to have contributed to improve the Leclanché cell and to have fostered the development of the first dry cell, also known as the zinc–carbon battery, less likely to break or leak and that could be effectively industrially produced at large scale."
tagline: "German physician and inventor (1855–1942)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Gassner_Carl2a.jpg/330px-Gassner_Carl2a.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1855-11-17"
deathDate: "1942-01-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.97
  momentum:             15
  historical:           6.340893333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Gassner"
    title: "Carl Gassner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84_%D8%BA%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%B1"
    title: "كارل غاسنر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%B1"
    title: "كارل جاسنر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Gassner"
    title: "Carl Gassner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Gassner"
    title: "Carl Gassner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Gassner"
    title: "Carl Gassner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Gassner"
    title: "Carl Gassner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q91456"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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