# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/friedrich-bayer
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:31:04.987Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/friedrich-bayer"
name: "Friedrich Bayer"
slug: "friedrich-bayer"
description: "Friedrich Bayer was the founder of what would become Bayer, a German chemical and pharmaceutical company. He founded the dyestuff factory Friedrich Bayer along with Johann Friedrich Weskott in 1863 in Elberfeld, a flourishing city in the early industrialised region of the Wuppertal or Wupper Valley."
tagline: "German businessman (1825–1880)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Friedr._Bayer_1863.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "founders"
profileType:
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  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1825-06-06"
deathDate: "1880-05-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.706845238095238
  historical:           14.08874533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Friedrich Bayer"
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    title: "Friedrich Bayer"
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    title: "Friedrich Bayer"
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    title: "Friedrich Bayer"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump