# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leopold-de-saussure
# Generated: 2026-09-01T13:04:45.271Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leopold-de-saussure"
name: "Léopold de Saussure"
slug: "leopold-de-saussure"
description: "Léopold de Saussure was a Swiss-born French sinologist, pioneering scholar of ancient Chinese astronomy, and officer in the French navy. After a naval career which took him to Indochina, China, and Japan, he quit the service and devoted the remainder of his life to scholarship. He was most famous for his studies of ancient Chinese astronomy."
tagline: "Swiss sinologist, officer in the French Navy and historian of astronomy (1866-1925)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Leopold_Saussure.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Switzerland"
  isoCode: "CH"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1866-05-30"
deathDate: "1925-07-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.01
  momentum:             11.76470588235294
  historical:           5.673110666666667
  currentAttention:     9.803921568627452
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9opold_de_Saussure"
    title: "Léopold de Saussure"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%84%D8%AF_%D8%AF%D9%8A_%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "ليوبولد دي سوسير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9opold_de_Saussure"
    title: "Léopold de Saussure"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AC%E3%82%AA%E3%83%9D%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%82%BD%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB"
    title: "レオポル・ド・ソシュール"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9opold_de_Saussure"
    title: "Léopold de Saussure"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9opold_de_Saussure"
    title: "Léopold de Saussure"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16219395"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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