# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-jacob-bausch
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:11:34.752Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-jacob-bausch"
name: "John Jacob Bausch"
slug: "john-jacob-bausch"
description: "John Jacob Bausch was a German-American maker of optical instruments who co-founded Bausch & Lomb. Over six decades he transformed his small, local optical shop into a large-scale international enterprise, pioneering the American optical industry."
tagline: "German-American optician and businessman (1830-1926)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Jacob_Bausch_(1830%E2%80%931926).png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1830-07-25"
deathDate: "1926-02-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.75
  momentum:             3.03030303030303
  historical:           6.366489333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "ジョン・ジェイコブ・ボシュ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Johann Jakob Bausch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%88%D8%A8_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B4"
    title: "جون جاكوب باوش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%88%D8%A8_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B4"
    title: "جون جاكوب باوش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Jakob_Bausch"
    title: "Johann Jakob Bausch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Jacob_Bausch"
    title: "John Jacob Bausch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Jakob_Bausch"
    title: "Johann Jakob Bausch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6241413"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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