# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sebastian-finsterwalder
# Generated: 2026-08-15T05:16:41.250Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sebastian-finsterwalder"
name: "Sebastian Finsterwalder"
slug: "sebastian-finsterwalder"
description: "Sebastian Finsterwalder was a German mathematician and glaciologist. Acknowledged as the \"father of glacier photogrammetry\"; he pioneered the use of repeat photography as a temporal surveying instrument in measurement of the geology and structure of the Alps and their glacier flows. The measurement techniques he developed and the data he produced are still in use to discover evidence for climate change."
tagline: "Bavarian mathematician and surveyor (1862-1951)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sebastian_Finsterwalder.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "DE"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
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  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1862-10-04"
deathDate: "1951-12-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.59
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.337797333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump