# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/simon-plossl
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:48:19.714Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/simon-plossl"
name: "Simon Plössl"
slug: "simon-plossl"
description: "Simon Plössl was an Austrian optical instrument maker. Initially trained at the Voigtländer company, he set up his own workshop in 1823. His major achievement at the time was the improvement of the achromatic microscope objective. Today he is best known for the eponymous Plössl telescope eyepiece, which follows his 1860 design and has been used extensively by amateur astronomers since the 1980s."
tagline: "Austrian optician (1794–1868)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Simon_Pl%C3%B6ssl_Litho.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1794-09-19"
deathDate: "1868-01-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.13
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.070662666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "西蒙·普罗索"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "سيمون بلوسل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Pl%C3%B6ssl"
    title: "Simon Plössl"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Pl%C3%B6%C3%9Fl"
    title: "Simon Plößl"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Pl%C3%B6ssl"
    title: "Simon Plössl"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Simon_Pl%C3%B6ssl"
    title: "Georg Simon Plössl"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%BE%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%84"
    title: "سیمون پلوسل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Pl%C3%B6ssl"
    title: "Simon Plössl"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%BB%D1%91%D1%81%D1%81%D0%BB%D1%8C%2C_%D0%A1%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Плёссль, Симон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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