# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/toussaint-henry-joseph-fafchamps
# Generated: 2026-08-16T01:01:05.437Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/toussaint-henry-joseph-fafchamps"
name: "Toussaint-Henry-Joseph Fafchamps"
slug: "toussaint-henry-joseph-fafchamps"
description: "Toussaint-Henry-Joseph Fafchamps, sometimes spelled Fafschamps, was a Belgian Army captain from Blegny, near Liège. In 1851, with the Belgian gunsmith Joseph Montigny and the Fusnot company, he developed what is sometimes considered the first machine gun in history, 10 years before the advent of the Gatling gun."
tagline: "Belgian inventor (1783-1868)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Montigny_Mitrailleuse.jpg/330px-Montigny_Mitrailleuse.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1783-11-12"
deathDate: "1868-07-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.59
  momentum:             2.472191323692992
  historical:           5.671310666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toussaint-Henri-Joseph_Fafchamps"
    title: "Toussaint-Henri-Joseph Fafchamps"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%87%D9%86%D8%B1%D9%8A_%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%81_%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A8%D8%B3"
    title: "توسان هنري جوزيف فافشامبس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toussaint-Henry-Joseph_Fafchamps"
    title: "Toussaint-Henry-Joseph Fafchamps"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toussaint_Fafchamps"
    title: "Toussaint Fafchamps"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toussaint_Fafchamps"
    title: "Toussaint Fafchamps"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toussaint_Fafchamps"
    title: "Toussaint Fafchamps"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2033968"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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