# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alfred-merz
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:57:34.571Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alfred-merz"
name: "Alfred Merz"
slug: "alfred-merz"
description: "Alfred Merz was an Austrian geographer, oceanographer and director of the Institute of Marine Science in Berlin. He died of pneumonia in Buenos Aires while on an expedition to survey the South Atlantic and is buried in Perchtoldsdorf. Merz Peninsula is named after him."
tagline: "Austrian geographer, oceanographer and director of the Institute of Marine Science in Berlin"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alfred_Merz.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1880-01-24"
deathDate: "1925-08-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Alfred Merz"
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    title: "ألفرد ميرز"
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    title: "الفرد ميرز"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Merz"
    title: "Alfred Merz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Merz"
    title: "Alfred Merz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Merz"
    title: "Alfred Merz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Merz"
    title: "Alfred Merz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AB%E3%83%95%E3%83%AC%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A1%E3%83%AB%E3%83%84"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump