# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-stepling
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:28:28.240Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joseph-stepling"
name: "Joseph Stepling"
slug: "joseph-stepling"
description: "Joseph Stepling was a Bohemian Jesuit priest, astronomer, physicist, and mathematician. Stepling founded the Clementinum Observatory in Prague in 1751 fitted with the best instruments available in that period, some made by Jan Klein. The earliest instrumental meteorological observations in central Europe were made at this observatory. The minor planet 6540 Stepling is named in his honour."
tagline: "Bohemian physicist (1716-1778)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/JosephSteplingBalzer.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "DE"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1716-06-29"
deathDate: "1778-07-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump