# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leo-lesquereux
# Generated: 2026-08-15T01:18:11.282Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leo-lesquereux"
name: "Leo Lesquereux"
slug: "leo-lesquereux"
description: "Charles Léo Lesquereux was a Swiss-born bryologist and a pioneer of American paleobotany who studied the formation of peat bogs."
tagline: "Swiss-American botanist (1806-1889)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Leo_Lesquereux_1864.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "CH"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
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  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1806-11-18"
deathDate: "1889-10-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Charles Léo Lesquereux"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump