# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/heinrich-escher-zollikofer
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:23:32.440Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/heinrich-escher-zollikofer"
name: "Heinrich Escher-Zollikofer"
slug: "heinrich-escher-zollikofer"
description: "Heinrich Escher was a Swiss merchant, speculator, and financier who operated in the colonial expansion zones of North America and Central America. Born into a prominent Zurich banking family, he accumulated significant wealth through colonial trade, plantation ownership, and involvement in the Atlantic slave trade. His fortune, partly derived from enslaved labor and slave trading, contributed to the economic foundation of the influential Escher vom Glas family, including his son Alfred Escher, who became a key figure in 19th-century Swiss politics and railway development."
tagline: "(1776-1853)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Switzerland"
  isoCode: "CH"
birthDate: "1776"
deathDate: "1853"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.53
  momentum:             7.5
  historical:           2.403168
  currentAttention:     41.66666666666667
  sourceConfidence:     15
  profileCompleteness:  31
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Escher_(Unternehmer)"
    title: "Heinrich Escher (Unternehmer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Escher_(1776%E2%80%931853)"
    title: "Heinrich Escher (1776–1853)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55217227"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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