# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/oskar-barnack
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:13:06.708Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/oskar-barnack"
name: "Oskar Barnack"
slug: "oskar-barnack"
description: "Oskar Barnack was a German inventor and photographer who built, in 1913, what would later become the first commercially successful 35mm still-camera, subsequently called Ur-Leica at Ernst Leitz Optische Werke in Wetzlar."
tagline: "German optical engineer (1879–1936)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Oskar_Barnack.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "DE"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
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birthDate: "1879-11-01"
deathDate: "1936-01-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump