# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/friedrich-hermann-otto-finsch
# Generated: 2026-08-16T05:22:10.254Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/friedrich-hermann-otto-finsch"
name: "Friedrich Hermann Otto Finsch"
slug: "friedrich-hermann-otto-finsch"
description: "Friedrich Hermann Otto Finsch was a German ethnographer, naturalist and colonial explorer. He is known for a two-volume monograph on the parrots of the world which earned him a doctorate. He also wrote on the people of New Guinea and was involved in plans for German colonization in Southeast Asia. Several species of bird are named after him as also the town of Finschhafen in Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea and a crater on the Moon."
tagline: "German explorer and biologist (1839-1917)"
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gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1839-08-08"
deathDate: "1917-01-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump