# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
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# Generated: 2026-08-15T20:50:38.833Z

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name: "Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg"
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description: "Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg was a German naturalist, zoologist, botanist, comparative anatomist, geologist, and microscopist. He was one of the most productive and renowned scientists of his time and a friend of the famous explorer Alexander von Humboldt. As a professor of medicine at the University of Berlin he was primarily interested in biology, naturalist studies and microscopy. His studies on micro-organisms led him to discover a number of protozoa, including the organisms giving the colour of the Red Sea, and he was among the first to suggest the separation of microscopic organisms into a grouping separate from the plants and animals. He wrote a major book on the life of microbes which included his own illustrations, 'Die Infusionsthierchen als vollkommene Organismen. Ein Blick in das tiefere organische Leben der Natur'. He was also a pioneer of micropaleontology."
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birthDate: "1795-04-19"
deathDate: "1876-06-27"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump