# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/etienne-gaspard-robert
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:16:10.823Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/etienne-gaspard-robert"
name: "Étienne-Gaspard Robert"
slug: "etienne-gaspard-robert"
description: "Étienne-Gaspard Robert, often known by the stage name of \"Robertson\", was a prominent physicist, stage magician and influential developer of phantasmagoria from the Prince-Bishopric of Liège. He was described by Charles Dickens as \"an honourable and well-educated showman\". Alongside his pioneering work on projection techniques for his shows Robert was also a physics lecturer and a keen balloonist at a time of great development in aviation."
tagline: "Belgian stage magician and influential developer of phantasmagoria (1763-1837)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/%C3%89tienne-Gaspard_Robert_(cca_1790).png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1763-06-15"
deathDate: "1837-07-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump