# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/catharina-helena-dorrien
# Generated: 2026-08-16T09:59:35.770Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/catharina-helena-dorrien"
name: "Catharina Helena Dörrien"
slug: "catharina-helena-dorrien"
description: "Catharina Helena Dörrien was a German botanist and teacher, recognized as \"the most celebrated German-speaking female naturalist of the period\". She was a talented artist who painted over 1,400 watercolor botanical illustrations, and published a catalogue of plants of the Principality of Orange-Nassau in 1777. She was also the first woman to name a fungal taxon."
tagline: "German botanist, botanical artist, author, translator, editor and governess (1717–1795)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Catharina_Helena_D%C3%B6rrien.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
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profileType:
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  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1717-03-01"
deathDate: "1795-06-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.75
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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sources:
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    title: "Катаріна Гелена Доррієн"
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    title: "كاثارينا هيلينا دورين"
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  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catharina_Helena_D%C3%B6rrien"
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    title: "Catharina Helena Dörrien"
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    title: "Catharina Helena Dörrien"
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    title: "Catharina Helena Dörrien"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catharina_Helena_D%C3%B6rrien"
    title: "Catharina Helena Dörrien"
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    title: "Catharina Helena Dörrien"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump