# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-joseph-francois-scheidweiler
# Generated: 2026-08-15T13:00:34.188Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-joseph-francois-scheidweiler"
name: "Michael Joseph François Scheidweiler"
slug: "michael-joseph-francois-scheidweiler"
description: "Michael Joseph François Scheidweiler was a German-born professor of botany and taxonomist, whose main area of interest was the Cactaceae. From a collection by Henri Guillaume Galeotti, he first described Ariocarpus retusus, type species of the genus in 1838 in Brussels."
tagline: "Botany professor, taxonomist (1799-1861)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Michael_Scheidweiler00.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1799-08-01"
deathDate: "1861-09-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.587301587301587
  historical:           7.869294666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Michael Joseph François Scheidweiler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Michael Joseph François Scheidweiler"
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    title: "مايكل چوزيف فرانسوا شيدويلر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Mişel Jozef Fransua Şaydvayler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Joseph_Fran%C3%A7ois_Scheidweiler"
    title: "Michael Joseph François Scheidweiler"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Joseph_Fran%C3%A7ois_Scheidweiler"
    title: "Michael Joseph François Scheidweiler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Scheidweiler"
    title: "Michael Scheidweiler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Joseph_Fran%C3%A7ois_Scheidweiler"
    title: "Michael Joseph François Scheidweiler"
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  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%B4%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%88%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C_%D0%96%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B5%D1%84_%D0%A4%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81%D1%83%D0%B0"
    title: "Шайдвайлер, Мишель Жозеф Франсуа"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump