# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alexander-eig
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:31:25.752Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alexander-eig"
name: "Alexander Eig"
slug: "alexander-eig"
description: "Alexander Eig was a botanist, one of the first plant researchers in Israel, head of the department of Botany at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and co-founder of the National Botanic Garden of Israel on Mount Scopus campus."
tagline: "Israeli botanist (1894-1938)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alexander_Eig_Profile_Picture_in_his_20s.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1894"
deathDate: "1938-07-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.93
  momentum:             4.444444444444445
  historical:           8.538013333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Александр Ейґ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%9C%D7%9B%D7%A1%D7%A0%D7%93%D7%A8_%D7%90%D7%99%D7%92"
    title: "אלכסנדר איג"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Аляксандр Эйг"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Eig"
    title: "Alexander Eig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Eig"
    title: "Alexander Eig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Eig"
    title: "Alexander Eig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Eig"
    title: "Alexander Eig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AD%D0%B9%D0%B3%2C_%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80"
    title: "Эйг, Александр"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Eig"
    title: "Alexander Eig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Eig"
    title: "Alexander Eig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2622975"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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