# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/erwin-schwab
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:02:40.816Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/erwin-schwab"
name: "Erwin Schwab"
slug: "erwin-schwab"
description: "Erwin Schwab is a German amateur astronomer and discoverer of minor planets, who works at the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research, near Darmstadt, Germany. He has discovered and co-discovered more than 80 asteroids from the Starkenburg, Tzec Maun and Taunus observatories. As volunteer scientist for the European Space Agency (ESA) he recovered near-Earth objects and comets. From 2014 to 2021 he recovered 30 lost comets, which equates to about 25% of the worldwide proportion in that timespan. Using the Schmidt telescope at Calar Alto Observatory to search for a lost comet he discovered in 2019 a unique variable star – the first known eclipsing stream-fed intermediate polar, cataloged as J1832.4-1627"
tagline: "Amateur astronomer; asteroid discoverer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1964-09-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.49
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.871310666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Erwin Schwab"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Schwab"
    title: "Erwin Schwab"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Schwab"
    title: "Erwin Schwab"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "إرفين شفاب"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ارفين شفاب"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Schwab"
    title: "Erwin Schwab"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B7%D6%80%D5%BE%D5%AB%D5%B6_%D5%87%D5%BE%D5%A1%D5%A2"
    title: "Էրվին Շվաբ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Schwab"
    title: "Erwin Schwab"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Schwab"
    title: "Erwin Schwab"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q99066"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump