# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dorete-bloch
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:40:21.499Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dorete-bloch"
name: "Dorete Bloch"
slug: "dorete-bloch"
description: "Dorete Bloch, married name Dorete Bloch Danielsen, was a Danish zoologist, former director of Náttúrugripasavnið, editor of Fróðskaparrit and author of numerous books on the animals and plants of the Faroe Islands. Bloch was born in Rungsted but moved to the Faroe Islands in 1974, where she remained for the rest of her life. She published studies on pilot whales, gaining a D.Phil in their study in 1991, covering aspects such as their migration patterns, diving behaviour and their importance on Faroese society."
tagline: "Faroese/Danish biologist (1943-2015)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/TombstoneDanielsen.jpg/330px-TombstoneDanielsen.jpg"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1943-06-14"
deathDate: "2015-02-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.87
  momentum:             7.946428571428572
  historical:           6.135817333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Dorete Bloch"
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    title: "دوريت بلوتش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorete_Bloch"
    title: "Dorete Bloch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorete_Bloch_Danielsen"
    title: "Dorete Bloch Danielsen"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorete_Bloch"
    title: "Dorete Bloch"
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  - url: "https://fo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorete_Bloch"
    title: "Dorete Bloch"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorete_Bloch"
    title: "Dorete Bloch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3467500"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump