# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/johann-heinrich-scheibler
# Generated: 2026-08-15T06:28:55.126Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/johann-heinrich-scheibler"
name: "Johann Heinrich Scheibler"
slug: "johann-heinrich-scheibler"
description: "Johann Heinrich Scheibler was a silk manufacturer from Crefeld, Prussia, without a scientific background, who went on to make contributions to the science of acoustics as a self taught musicologist. He made a \"tonometer\" from 56 tuning forks as an instrument for accurately measuring pitch by counting beating, described in 1834. \"A wooden board...together with a small wooden mallet with which the forks are to be struck, and a good metronome, constitute Scheibler's tuning apparatus.\"'The physical and musical Tonometer, which makes evident to the eye, by means of the pendulum [metronome], the absolute vibrations of the tones, and of the principal kinds of combinational tones, as well as the most precise exactness of equally tempered and mathematical chords, invented and executed by Heinrich Scheibler, silk manufacturer in Crefeld.'"
tagline: "German scientist, music acoustician and textile manufacturer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Johann_Heinrich_Scheibler_(Krefeld).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1777-11-11"
deathDate: "1838-11-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.92
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.539993333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Scheibler"
    title: "Johann Scheibler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%88%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%A8%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "چوهان ستشيبلير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Heinrich_Scheibler_(Textilfabrikant%2C_1777)"
    title: "Johann Heinrich Scheibler (Textilfabrikant, 1777)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Scheibler"
    title: "Johann Scheibler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Scheibler"
    title: "Johann Scheibler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Heinrich_Scheibler"
    title: "Johann Heinrich Scheibler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%98%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BD"
    title: "Шейблер, Иоганн"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107660"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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