# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/georg-friedrich-strass
# Generated: 2026-08-15T08:03:34.444Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/georg-friedrich-strass"
name: "Georg Friedrich Strass"
slug: "georg-friedrich-strass"
description: "Georg Friedrich Strass was a jeweler and inventor of imitation gemstones from Alsace. He is best known as the inventor of the rhinestone, called strass in many European languages, from a particular type of crystal he found in the river Rhine."
tagline: "Alsatian jeweler and inventor of the rhinestone"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1701-05-29"
deathDate: "1773-12-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.6
  momentum:             6.292682926829269
  historical:           7.884810666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B5%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B3_%D0%A8%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%81"
    title: "Георг Штрасс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%88%D8%B1%DA%86_%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4_%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B3"
    title: "چورچ فريدريتش ستراس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Friedrich_Strass"
    title: "Georg Friedrich Strass"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Friedrich_Strass"
    title: "Georg Friedrich Strass"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Friedrich_Strass"
    title: "Georg Friedrich Strass"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Strass"
    title: "Georges Frédéric Strass"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Friedrich_Strass"
    title: "Georg Friedrich Strass"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Friedrich_Strass"
    title: "Georg Friedrich Strass"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%81%2C_%D0%93%D0%B5%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B3_%D0%A4%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%85"
    title: "Штрасс, Георг Фридрих"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q342277"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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