# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kazimierz-proszynski
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:54:43.372Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kazimierz-proszynski"
name: "Kazimierz Prószyński"
slug: "kazimierz-proszynski"
description: "Kazimierz Prószyński was a Polish inventor active in the field of cinematography. He patented his first film camera, called Pleograph, before the Lumière brothers, and later went on to improve the cinema projector for the Gaumont company. He was also the inventor of the widely used first hand-held Aeroscope camera."
tagline: "Polish inventor (1875-1945)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kazimierz_Pr%C3%B3szy%C5%84ski_1909.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1875-04-04"
deathDate: "1945-03-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           16.0333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump