# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michel-etienne-descourtilz
# Generated: 2026-08-15T14:28:55.757Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michel-etienne-descourtilz"
name: "Michel Étienne Descourtilz"
slug: "michel-etienne-descourtilz"
description: "Michel Étienne Descourtilz, was a French medical doctor, botanist and historian of the Haitian Revolution. He was the father of illustrator Jean-Théodore Descourtilz, with whom he sometimes collaborated."
tagline: "French physician, botanist and historiographer of the Haitian revolution (1775-1835)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Plate_of_a_pineapple_from_Descourtiz%2C_1877.jpg/330px-Plate_of_a_pineapple_from_Descourtiz%2C_1877.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1775-11-25"
deathDate: "1835"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.66
  momentum:             15.21739130434783
  historical:           5.470050666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Etienne_Descourtilz"
    title: "Michel Etienne Descourtilz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%B2"
    title: "ميشيل اتيان ديسكورتيلز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_%C3%89tienne_Descourtilz"
    title: "Michel Étienne Descourtilz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_%C3%89tienne_Descourtilz"
    title: "Michel Étienne Descourtilz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_%C3%89tienne_Descourtilz"
    title: "Michel Étienne Descourtilz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_%C3%89tienne_Descourtilz"
    title: "Michel Étienne Descourtilz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5686982"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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