# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/johann-jacob-baeyer
# Generated: 2026-09-02T08:57:16.558Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/johann-jacob-baeyer"
name: "Johann Jacob Baeyer"
slug: "johann-jacob-baeyer"
description: "Johann Jacob Baeyer was a German geodesist and a lieutenant-general in the Royal Prussian Army. He was the first director of the Royal Prussian Geodetic Institute and is the founder of the Central European Arc Measurement. He was the father of the Nobel Prize–winning chemist Adolf von Baeyer. Baeyer was a Lutheran."
tagline: "German geodesist (1794–1885)"
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gender: "male"
birthDate: "1794-11-05"
deathDate: "1885-09-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  40
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ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump