# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/franz-anton-von-gerstner
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:03:59.810Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/franz-anton-von-gerstner"
name: "Franz Anton von Gerstner"
slug: "franz-anton-von-gerstner"
description: "Franz Anton Ritter von Gerstner was a civil engineer, professor and railway pioneer born in the Kingdom of Bohemia in what was then the Habsburg monarchy."
tagline: "Austro-bohemian surveyor and railway engineer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Franz_Anton_Gerstner_(1793%E2%80%931840).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1796-04-19"
deathDate: "1840-04-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.53
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.08329866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Франц Антон фон Герстнер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "فرانز انطون فون جيرستنر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franti%C5%A1ek_Anton%C3%ADn_Gerstner"
    title: "František Antonín Gerstner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Anton_von_Gerstner"
    title: "Franz Anton von Gerstner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Anton_von_Gerstner"
    title: "Franz Anton von Gerstner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Anton_von_Gerstner"
    title: "Franz Anton von Gerstner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Anton_von_Gerstner"
    title: "Franz Anton von Gerstner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Anton_von_Gerstner"
    title: "Franz Anton von Gerstner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Anton_von_Gerstner"
    title: "Franz Anton von Gerstner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franti%C5%A1ek_Anton%C3%ADn_Gerstner"
    title: "František Antonín Gerstner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%A4%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%86_%D0%90%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D1%84%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Герстнер, Франц Антон фон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Anton_von_Gerstner"
    title: "Franz Anton von Gerstner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79120"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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