# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-schweinfurth
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:27:52.305Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-schweinfurth"
name: "Charles Schweinfurth"
slug: "charles-schweinfurth"
description: "Charles Schweinfurth was an American botanist and plant collector who distinguished himself by his studies on orchids. He predominantly collected species from Peru which he described in his four volume reference work Orchids of Peru (1958). He was a researcher at the Botanical Museum of Harvard University, and director of the Ames Orchid Herbarium where, in 1958, he was succeeded by Leslie Andrew Garay."
tagline: "American botanist (1890-1970)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1890-04-13"
deathDate: "1970-11-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.39
  momentum:             15
  historical:           7.668286666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "چارلس شوائن فورتھ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Charles Schweinfurth"
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    title: "Charles Schweinfurth"
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    title: "Charles Schweinfurth"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Schweinfurth"
    title: "Charles Schweinfurth"
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    title: "Чарльз Швэйнфурт"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Швейнфурт, Чарльз"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Schweinfurth"
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    title: "Charles Schweinfurth"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump