# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/henri-ferdinand-van-heurck
# Generated: 2026-08-15T03:50:42.444Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/henri-ferdinand-van-heurck"
name: "Henri Ferdinand Van Heurck"
slug: "henri-ferdinand-van-heurck"
description: "Henri Ferdinand van Heurck was a Belgian diatom specialist and microscopist. Born in an industrialist family, he taught himself microscopy and botany and wrote several pioneering works on diatoms, their study under the microscope and their preservation. He pioneered the use of electric lighting and its use in microphotography."
tagline: "Belgian botanist (1838-1909)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Henri_van_Heurck.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1838"
deathDate: "1909"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           35.65
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.469402666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Ferdinand_Van_Heurck"
    title: "Henri Ferdinand Van Heurck"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Van_Herk"
    title: "Henri Van Herk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_van_Heurck"
    title: "Henri van Heurck"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Ferdinand_Van_Heurck"
    title: "Henri Ferdinand Van Heurck"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri-Ferdinand_van_Heurck"
    title: "Henri-Ferdinand van Heurck"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%A5%D1%91%D1%80%D0%BA%2C_%D0%93%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%80%D0%B8"
    title: "Ван Хёрк, Генри"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5894416"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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