# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/luis-cruls
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:13:40.096Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/luis-cruls"
name: "Luis Cruls"
slug: "luis-cruls"
description: "Luíz Cruls or Luís Cruls or Louis Ferdinand Cruls was a Belgian-Brazilian astronomer and geodesist. He was Director of the Brazilian National Observatory from 1881 to 1908, led the commission charged with the survey and selection of a future site for the capital of Brazil in the Central Plateau, and was co-discoverer of the Great Comet of 1882. Cruls was also an active proponent of efforts to accurately measure solar parallax and towards that end led a Brazilian team in their observations of 1882 Transit of Venus in Punta Arenas, Chile."
tagline: "Astronomer (1848–1908)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Retrato_de_Luiz_Cruls-Cropped-Enhanced.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1848-01-21"
deathDate: "1908-06-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.32
  momentum:             10.42637080506143
  historical:           7.612132
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%80%D1%83%D0%BB%D1%81%2C_%D0%9B%D1%83%D0%B8%D1%81"
    title: "Крулс, Луис"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lu%C3%ADz_Cruls"
    title: "Luíz Cruls"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lu%C3%ADs_Cruls"
    title: "Luís Cruls"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lu%C3%ADs_Cruls"
    title: "Luís Cruls"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lu%C3%ADs_Cruls"
    title: "Luís Cruls"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lu%C3%ADs_Cruls"
    title: "Luís Cruls"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Cruls"
    title: "Louis Cruls"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lu%C3%ADs_Cruls"
    title: "Luís Cruls"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2155466"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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