# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ignaz-von-peczely
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:41:21.794Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ignaz-von-peczely"
name: "Ignaz von Peczely"
slug: "ignaz-von-peczely"
description: "Ignaz von Peczely was a Hungarian scientist, physician, and homeopath, considered the father of modern iridology. Von Peczely first thought of iridology when caring for an owl with a broken leg. After noticing a spot in the owl's eye, he hypothesized a link between the two and later tested this theory with other animals and people. While iridology has been largely dismissed as pseudoscience, Von Peczely's research led to the first known accurate drawing of an iris."
tagline: "Hungarian physician (1826–1911)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/P%C3%A9czeli_Ign%C3%A1c_fiatal.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1826-01-26"
deathDate: "1911-07-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.41
  momentum:             5.454545454545454
  historical:           4.604032
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_von_Peczely"
    title: "Ignaz von Peczely"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ign%C3%A1c_P%C3%A9czely"
    title: "Ignác Péczely"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A9czely_Ign%C3%A1c"
    title: "Péczely Ignác"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ign%C3%A1c_P%C3%A9czely"
    title: "Ignác Péczely"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%87%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%A9%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%9A%E0%AF%81_%E0%AE%B5%E0%AF%8B%E0%AE%A9%E0%AF%8D_%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%86%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%9A%E0%AF%86%E0%AE%B2%E0%AE%BF"
    title: "இகினாசு வோன் பெக்செலி"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1242888"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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