# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/victor-charles-mahillon
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:21:17.498Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/victor-charles-mahillon"
name: "Victor-Charles Mahillon"
slug: "victor-charles-mahillon"
description: "Victor-Charles Mahillon was a Belgian musician, instrument builder and writer on musical topics. He was the founder and first curator of the Musée instrumental du Conservatoire Royal de Musique, known today as the Musical Instrument Museum. He built, collected, and described more than 1500 musical instruments."
tagline: "Belgian musician and writer on musical topics (1841-1924)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Victor-Charles_Mahillon.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1841-03-10"
deathDate: "1924-06-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.43
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.541217333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Mahillon"
    title: "Victor Mahillon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor-Charles_Mahillon"
    title: "Victor-Charles Mahillon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor-Charles_Mahillon"
    title: "Victor-Charles Mahillon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor-Charles_Mahillon"
    title: "Victor-Charles Mahillon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor-Charles_Mahillon"
    title: "Victor-Charles Mahillon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor-Charles_Mahillon"
    title: "Victor-Charles Mahillon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor-Charles_Mahillon"
    title: "Victor-Charles Mahillon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3557082"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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