# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-d-orbigny
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:51:19.567Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-d-orbigny"
name: "Charles d'Orbigny"
slug: "charles-d-orbigny"
description: "Charles Henry Dessalines d'Orbigny (1806–1879) was a French botanist and geologist specializing in the Tertiary of France. He was the younger brother of French naturalist and South American explorer, Alcide d'Orbigny. At the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, d'Orbigny classified many of the flowering plant species returned to France from his brother's natural history collecting journeys through South America."
tagline: "French botanist and geology specializing in the Tertiary of France (1806-1876)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Charles_Henry_d'Orbigny.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1806-12-02"
deathDate: "1876-02-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.31
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.203528
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Charles Henry Dessalines d'Orbigny"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles-Henri_Dessalines_d%E2%80%99Orbigny"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump