# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/georg-theodor-august-gaffky
# Generated: 2026-08-15T22:38:06.945Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/georg-theodor-august-gaffky"
name: "Georg Theodor August Gaffky"
slug: "georg-theodor-august-gaffky"
description: "Georg Theodor August Gaffky was a Hanover-born bacteriologist best known for identifying bacillus salmonella typhi as the cause of typhoid disease in 1884."
tagline: "German physician (1850–1918)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Prof._Dr._G._Gaffky.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "DE"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "doctor"
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birthDate: "1850-02-17"
deathDate: "1918-09-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Georg Gaffky"
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    title: "Georg Theodor August Gaffky"
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  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Gaffky"
    title: "Georg Gaffky"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Gaffky"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump