# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gertrude-blom
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:58:22.385Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gertrude-blom"
name: "Gertrude Blom"
slug: "gertrude-blom"
description: "Gertrude \"Trudi\" Duby Blom was a Swiss journalist, social anthropologist, and documentary photographer who spent five decades chronicling the Mayan cultures of Chiapas, Mexico, particularly the culture of the Lacandon Maya. In later life, she also became an environmental activist. Blom's former home Casa Na Bolom is a research and cultural center devoted to the protection and preservation of the Lacandon Maya and La Selva Lacandona rain forest."
tagline: "Swiss Mesoamericanists (1901–1993)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Trudi.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Switzerland"
  isoCode: "CH"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1901-07-07"
deathDate: "1993-12-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.67
  momentum:             0.425
  historical:           10.48167866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_Duby-Blom"
    title: "Gertrude Duby-Blom"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%BA%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AF_%D8%A8%D9%84%D9%88%D9%85"
    title: "غيرترود بلوم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AF_%D8%A8%D9%84%D9%88%D9%85"
    title: "جيرترود بلوم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_Duby_Blom"
    title: "Gertrude Duby Blom"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_Duby-Blom"
    title: "Gertrude Duby-Blom"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_Duby-Blom"
    title: "Gertrude Duby-Blom"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_Blom"
    title: "Gertrude Blom"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_Duby_Blom"
    title: "Gertrude Duby Blom"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_Blom"
    title: "Gertrude Blom"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%92%D7%A8%D7%98%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%93_%D7%93%D7%95%D7%91%D7%99_%D7%91%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%9D"
    title: "גרטרוד דובי בלום"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_Duby-Blom"
    title: "Gertrude Duby-Blom"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_Duby_Blom"
    title: "Gertrude Duby Blom"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124199"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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