# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/carl-chun
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:04:45.153Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/carl-chun"
name: "Carl Chun"
slug: "carl-chun"
description: "Carl Chun or Karl Friedrich Gustav Chun was a German marine biologist who worked as a professor at the Universities of Königsberg (1883), Breslau (1891) and Leipzig (1898). He was a pioneer of German oceanographic research, organizing the first deep-sea expedition aboard the SS Valdivia in 1898-99. He spent much of his life studying the collections made during the expedition, and was responsible for discovering many marine organisms, including the vampire squid."
tagline: "German zoologist (1852–1914)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Carl_Chun_1899.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
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  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1852-10-01"
deathDate: "1914-04-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           18.81944
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump