# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/adolf-bernhard-meyer
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:02:20.785Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/adolf-bernhard-meyer"
name: "Adolf Bernhard Meyer"
slug: "adolf-bernhard-meyer"
description: "Adolf Bernhard Meyer was a German anthropologist, ornithologist, entomologist, and herpetologist. He served for nearly thirty years as director of the Königlich Zoologisches und Anthropologisch-Ethnographisches Museum in Dresden. He worked on comparative anatomy and appreciated the ideas of evolution, and influenced many German scientists by translating into German the 1858 papers by Darwin and Wallace which first proposed evolution by natural selection. Influenced by the writings of Wallace with whom he interacted, he travelled to Southeast Asia, and collected specimens and recorded his observations from the region."
tagline: "German zoologist and anthropologist (1840–1911)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Adolf_Bernhard_Meyer.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1840-10-11"
deathDate: "1911-02-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.829787234042553
  historical:           15.54179333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump