# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/emil-bessels
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:01:01.395Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/emil-bessels"
name: "Emil Bessels"
slug: "emil-bessels"
description: "Emil Bessels was a German zoologist, entomologist, physician, and Arctic researcher who is best known for his controversial role in the attempted but ill-fated American Polaris expedition to the North Pole in 1871. Circumstantial evidence strongly points to Bessels as the most likely suspect in the death of the expedition's commander, American explorer Charles Francis Hall, by arsenic poisoning."
tagline: "German physician, entomologist, zoologist and arctic researcher (1847–1888)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Emil_Bessels_1880_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1847-06-02"
deathDate: "1888-03-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.31
  momentum:             16.10671936758893
  historical:           7.886898666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "اميل بيسيلس"
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    title: "Emil Bessels"
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    title: "Emil Bessels"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_Bessels"
    title: "Emil Bessels"
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    title: "Emil Bessels"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_Bessels"
    title: "Emil Bessels"
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  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B7%D5%B4%D5%AB%D5%AC_%D4%B2%D5%A5%D5%BD%D5%BD%D5%A5%D5%AC%D5%BD"
    title: "Էմիլ Բեսսելս"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Бессельс, Эмиль"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump