# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bernhard-rensch
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:19:43.426Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bernhard-rensch"
name: "Bernhard Rensch"
slug: "bernhard-rensch"
description: "Bernhard Rensch was a German evolutionary biologist and ornithologist who did field work in Indonesia and India. Starting his scientific career with pro-Lamarckian views, he shifted to selectionism and became one of the architects of the modern synthesis in evolutionary biology, which he popularised in Germany. Besides his work on how environmental factors influenced the evolution of geographically isolated populations and on evolution above the species level, which contributed to the modern synthesis, he also worked extensively in the area of animal behavior (ethology) and on philosophical aspects of biological science. His education and scientific work were interrupted by service in the German military during both World War I and World War II."
tagline: "German zoologist (1900-1990)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f2/Bernhard_Rensch.jpg"
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: "1900-01-21"
deathDate: "1990-04-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.77
  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.009432
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump