# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/johann-karl-burckhardt
# Generated: 2026-08-15T02:09:45.468Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/johann-karl-burckhardt"
name: "Johann Karl Burckhardt"
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description: "Johann Karl Burckhardt was a German-born astronomer and mathematician. He later became a naturalized French citizen and became known as Jean Charles Burckhardt. He is remembered in particular for his work in fundamental astronomy, and for his lunar theory, which was in widespread use for the construction of navigational ephemerides of the Moon for much of the first half of the nineteenth century."
tagline: "French astronomer and mathematician"
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gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "FR"
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birthDate: "1773-04-30"
deathDate: "1825-06-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump