# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edward-asahel-birge
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:32:08.211Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edward-asahel-birge"
name: "Edward Asahel Birge"
slug: "edward-asahel-birge"
description: "Edward Asahel Birge was an American professor and administrator at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He was one of the pioneers of the study of limnology, and served as acting president of the university from 1900 to 1903 and as president from 1918 to 1925."
tagline: "American zoologist (1851–1950)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Edward_Asahel_Birge1919.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1851-09-07"
deathDate: "1950-06-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           35.28
  momentum:             0
  historical:           3.936465333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Edward Asahel Birge"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Asahel_Birge"
    title: "Edward Asahel Birge"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Asahel_Birge"
    title: "Edward Asahel Birge"
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  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Asahel_Birge"
    title: "Edward Asahel Birge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1291586"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump