# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edward-aveling
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:42:59.888Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edward-aveling"
name: "Edward Aveling"
slug: "edward-aveling"
description: "Edward Bibbins Aveling was an English comparative anatomist, botanist and popular spokesman for Darwinian evolution, atheism, and socialism. He was also a journalist and editor, playwright and actor, short story writer and poet. Aveling was the author of scientific works and numerous literary and political pamphlets that were published by The Freethought Publishing Company; he is perhaps best known for his popular work The Student's Darwin (1881); he also translated the first volume of Karl Marx's Das Kapital and Friedrich Engels' Socialism: Utopian and Scientific."
tagline: "British biologist (1849-1898)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Aveling-Edward.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1849-11-29"
deathDate: "1898-08-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump