# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/moritz-ludwig-george-wichmann
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:48:25.569Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/moritz-ludwig-george-wichmann"
name: "Moritz Ludwig George Wichmann"
slug: "moritz-ludwig-george-wichmann"
description: "Moritz Ludwig George Wichmann (1821–1859) was a German astronomer. He was an ardent observer of minor planets. A student of Friedrich Bessel, he observed with the famous Königsberg heliometer. In 1853 he published a determination of the parallax of Groombridge 1830."
tagline: "German astronomer"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1821-09-14"
deathDate: "1859-02-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             1.764705882352941
  historical:           7.602556
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Moritz Ludwig Georg Wichmann"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moritz_Ludwig_Georg_Wichmann"
    title: "Moritz Ludwig Georg Wichmann"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moritz_Ludwig_George_Wichmann"
    title: "Moritz Ludwig George Wichmann"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moritz_Ludwig_George_Wichmann"
    title: "Moritz Ludwig George Wichmann"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moritz_Ludwig_George_Wichmann"
    title: "Moritz Ludwig George Wichmann"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moritz_Ludwig_George_Wichmann"
    title: "Moritz Ludwig George Wichmann"
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  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moritz_Ludwig_George_Wichmann"
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  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moritz_Ludwig_George_Wichmann"
    title: "Moritz Ludwig George Wichmann"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1947994"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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