# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pierre-denys-de-montfort
# Generated: 2026-08-15T18:03:37.455Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/pierre-denys-de-montfort"
name: "Pierre Denys de Montfort"
slug: "pierre-denys-de-montfort"
description: "Pierre Denys de Montfort, also spelt Pierre Dénys de Montfort, (1766–1820) was a French naturalist, in particular a malacologist, remembered today for his pioneering inquiries into the existence of the gigantic octopuses. He was inspired by a description from 1783 of an eight-metre long tentacle found in the mouth of a sperm whale."
tagline: "French zoologist (1766-1820)"
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gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1766-06-17"
deathDate: "1821-02-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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    title: "П'єр Дені де Монфор"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump