# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/emile-gsell
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:44:35.586Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/emile-gsell"
name: "Emile Gsell"
slug: "emile-gsell"
description: "Émile Gsell was a French photographer who worked in Southeast Asia, becoming the first commercial photographer based in Saigon. He participated in at least three scientific expeditions, and the images he produced from the first, to Angkor Wat, are among the earliest photographs of that site. Though he died at an early age, he managed to make several hundred photographs in just over a dozen years featuring a wide range of subject matter including architecture, landscapes, and studio, ethnographic and genre portraits."
tagline: "French photographer (1838–1879)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Angkor1866.jpg/330px-Angkor1866.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Historical Figures"
  slug: "historical-figures"
profileType:
  name: "Historical Figure"
  slug: "historical-figure"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2798645"
birthDate: "1838-12-31"
deathDate: "1879-10-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.41
  momentum:             4.269526014377971
  historical:           7.678042666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89mile_Gsell"
    title: "Émile Gsell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%AC%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "اميل جسيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89mile_Gsell"
    title: "Émile Gsell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89mile_Gsell"
    title: "Émile Gsell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89mile_Gsell"
    title: "Émile Gsell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emile_Gsell"
    title: "Emile Gsell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89mile_Gsell"
    title: "Émile Gsell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B7%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BB%D1%8C%2C_%D0%AD%D0%BC%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C_(%D1%84%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%84)"
    title: "Гзелль, Эмиль (фотограф)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%89%BE%E7%B1%B3%E5%B0%94%C2%B7%E5%9F%BA%E7%91%9F%E5%B0%94"
    title: "艾米尔·基瑟尔"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q872949"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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