# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walther-augustin-villiger
# Generated: 2026-08-15T06:44:36.928Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walther-augustin-villiger"
name: "Walther Augustin Villiger"
slug: "walther-augustin-villiger"
description: "Walter Augustin Villiger was a Swiss astronomer and Carl Zeiss engineer who discovered an asteroid while working in Munich, Germany. He also participated in the observation of comets."
tagline: "Swiss astronomer (1872–1938)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Jena_Nordfriedhof_Villiger.jpg/330px-Jena_Nordfriedhof_Villiger.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
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birthDate: "1872"
deathDate: "1938"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump