# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/franz-martin-hilgendorf
# Generated: 2026-08-15T05:03:23.274Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/franz-martin-hilgendorf"
name: "Franz Martin Hilgendorf"
slug: "franz-martin-hilgendorf"
description: "Franz Martin Hilgendorf was a German zoologist and paleontologist. Hilgendorf's research on fossil snails from the Steinheim crater in the early 1860s became a palaeontological evidence for the theory of evolution published by Charles Darwin in 1859."
tagline: "German zoologist and paleontologist (1839–1904)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Franz_Martin_Hilgendorf.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
birthDate: "1839-12-05"
deathDate: "1904-07-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.21
  momentum:             6
  historical:           8.937653333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Франц Мартін Гільгендорф"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "فرانز مارتن هيلجيندورف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Hilgendorf"
    title: "Franz Hilgendorf"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Martin_Hilgendorf"
    title: "Franz Martin Hilgendorf"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Martin_Hilgendorf"
    title: "Franz Martin Hilgendorf"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%83%84%E3%83%BB%E3%83%92%E3%83%AB%E3%82%B2%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89%E3%83%AB%E3%83%95"
    title: "フランツ・ヒルゲンドルフ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Martin_Hilgendorf"
    title: "Franz Martin Hilgendorf"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%84%2C_%D0%A4%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%86"
    title: "Хильгендорф, Франц"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Martin_Hilgendorf"
    title: "Franz Martin Hilgendorf"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Martin_Hilgendorf"
    title: "Franz Martin Hilgendorf"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q105603"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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