# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/johann-nicolaus-von-dreyse
# Generated: 2026-08-16T08:24:30.758Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/johann-nicolaus-von-dreyse"
name: "Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse"
slug: "johann-nicolaus-von-dreyse"
description: "Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse was a German firearms inventor and manufacturer. He is most famous for submitting the Dreyse needle gun in 1836 to the Prussian army, which was adopted for service in December 1840 as the Leichte Perkussions-Gewehr M 1841 – a name deliberately chosen to mislead about the rifle's mechanism – later renamed Zündnadelgewehr M 1841 in 1855."
tagline: "German inventor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Levinthal_Dreyse.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1787-11-20"
deathDate: "1867-12-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump