# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/eduard-imhof
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:34:44.432Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/eduard-imhof"
name: "Eduard Imhof"
slug: "eduard-imhof"
description: "Eduard Imhof was a professor of cartography at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich, from 1925 to 1965. His fame, which extends far beyond the Institute of Technology, stems from his relief shading work on school maps and atlases. Between 1922 and 1973 Imhof worked on many school maps. He drew and shaded maps of Switzerland as well her various cantons and the Austrian province of Vorarlberg."
tagline: "Swiss cartographer and professor at ETH Zurich (1895-1986) and child of his father Eduard Imhof (1854-1924)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/ETH-BIB-Imhof%2C_Eduard_(1895-1986)-Portr_00154.tif?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Switzerland"
  isoCode: "CH"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1895-01-25"
deathDate: "1986-04-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.34
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.543845333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Eduard_Imhof"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%87%D9%88%D9%81"
    title: "ادوارد امهوف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Imhof"
    title: "Eduard Imhof"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Imhof"
    title: "Eduard Imhof"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Imhof"
    title: "Eduard Imhof"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Imhof"
    title: "Eduard Imhof"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Imhof"
    title: "Eduard Imhof"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Imhof"
    title: "Eduard Imhof"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Imhof"
    title: "Eduard Imhof"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%88%B1%E5%BE%B7%E5%8D%8E%C2%B7%E8%8B%B1%E9%9C%8D%E5%A4%AB"
    title: "爱德华·英霍夫"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q123786"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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