# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-liesganig
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:01:33.928Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joseph-liesganig"
name: "Joseph Liesganig"
slug: "joseph-liesganig"
description: "Joseph Xaver Liesganig was a Jesuit priest and geodesist who was a professor of mathematics at the University of Vienna. He taught mathematics from 1742 at the University of Graz. He was involved in measuring the extent of Austria, establishing the longitude of Vienna and in early trigonometrical mapping of the region. He was the last of the Jesuit astronomers at the Vienna observatory."
tagline: "Austrian astronomer and Jesuit"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Liesganig.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1719-02-13"
deathDate: "1799-03-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.04
  momentum:             3.062409288824383
  historical:           5.468718666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Liesganig"
    title: "Joseph Liesganig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%81_%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%AC"
    title: "چوزيف ليسجانيج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Liesganig"
    title: "Josef Liesganig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%99%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B5%D1%84_%D0%9B%D1%96%D1%81%D2%91%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%96%D2%91"
    title: "Йозеф Лісґаніґ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Liesganig"
    title: "Joseph Liesganig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Liesganig"
    title: "Joseph Liesganig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q89732"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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