# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jean-alexander-heinrich-clapier-de-colongue
# Generated: 2026-08-16T10:13:39.303Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jean-alexander-heinrich-clapier-de-colongue"
name: "Jean Alexander Heinrich Clapier de Colongue"
slug: "jean-alexander-heinrich-clapier-de-colongue"
description: "Jean Alexander Heinrich Clapier de Colongue was a Baltic German marine engineer and founder of a theory of magnetic deviation for magnetic compasses, living and working in Imperial Russia."
tagline: "Baltic German engineer (1839–1901)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/De_Kolong.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1839-02-22"
deathDate: "1901-05-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.12
  momentum:             4.285714285714284
  historical:           5.469222666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Alexander_Heinrich_Clapier_de_Colongue"
    title: "Jean Alexander Heinrich Clapier de Colongue"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Alexander_Heinrich_Clapier_de_Colongue"
    title: "Jean Alexander Heinrich Clapier de Colongue"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Alexander_Heinrich_Clapier_de_Colongue"
    title: "Jean Alexander Heinrich Clapier de Colongue"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B3%2C_%D0%98%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%9F%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Колонг, Иван Петрович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johans_Klapje_de_Kolongs_(izgudrot%C4%81js)"
    title: "Johans Klapje de Kolongs (izgudrotājs)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Alexander_Heinrich_Clapier_de_Colongue"
    title: "Jean Alexander Heinrich Clapier de Colongue"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q337428"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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