# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ethelbert-blatter
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:15:57.383Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ethelbert-blatter"
name: "Ethelbert Blatter"
slug: "ethelbert-blatter"
description: "Ethelbert Blatter was a Swiss Jesuit priest and pioneering botanist in British India. Author of five books and over sixty papers on the flora of the Indian subcontinent, he was Principal and Professor of Botany at St Xavier College, Bombay and vice-president of the Bombay Natural History Society. In 1932 he became the first recipient of the Johannes Bruehl Memorial Medal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal."
tagline: "Swiss Jesuit priest and botanist in British India (1877-1934)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ethelbert_Blatter.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Switzerland"
  isoCode: "CH"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1877-12-15"
deathDate: "1934-05-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.05
  momentum:             1.293103448275862
  historical:           5.671382666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Ethelbert Blatter"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethelbert_Blatter"
    title: "Ethelbert Blatter"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethelbert_Blatter"
    title: "Ethelbert Blatter"
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  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%89%BE%E5%A1%9E%E5%B0%94%E4%BC%AF%E7%89%B9%C2%B7%E5%B8%83%E6%8B%89%E7%89%B9"
    title: "艾塞尔伯特·布拉特"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethelbert_Blatter"
    title: "Ethelbert Blatter"
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  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethelbert_Blatter"
    title: "Ethelbert Blatter"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3059270"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump