# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/abraham-erasmus-van-wyk
# Generated: 2026-09-02T05:25:52.539Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/abraham-erasmus-van-wyk"
name: "Abraham Erasmus van Wyk"
slug: "abraham-erasmus-van-wyk"
description: "Abraham Erasmus van Wyk, also known as Braam van Wyk is a South African plant taxonomist. He has been responsible for the training of a significant percentage of the active plant taxonomists in South Africa and has also produced the first electronic application (app) for the identification of trees in southern Africa."
tagline: "South African botanist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Braam_van_Wyk.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1952"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.05
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.27041066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Абрахам Ерасмус ван Вік"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Erasmus_van_Wyk"
    title: "Abraham Erasmus van Wyk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Erasmus_van_Uik"
    title: "Abraham Erasmus van Uik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Erasmus_van_Wyk"
    title: "Abraham Erasmus van Wyk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Erasmus_van_Wyk"
    title: "Abraham Erasmus van Wyk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Erasmus_van_Wyk"
    title: "Abraham Erasmus van Wyk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Erasmus_van_Wyk"
    title: "Abraham Erasmus van Wyk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Erasmus_van_Wyk"
    title: "Abraham Erasmus van Wyk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Erasmus_Braam_van_Wyk"
    title: "Abraham Erasmus Braam van Wyk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braam_van_Wyk"
    title: "Braam van Wyk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BA%2C_%D0%90%D0%B1%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%BC_%D0%AD%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BC%D1%83%D1%81"
    title: "Ван Уик, Абрахам Эрасмус"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Erasmus_van_Wyk"
    title: "Abraham Erasmus van Wyk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2452675"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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