# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/friedrich-welwitsch
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:58:22.269Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/friedrich-welwitsch"
name: "Friedrich Welwitsch"
slug: "friedrich-welwitsch"
description: "Friedrich Martin Josef Welwitsch was an Austrian Empire explorer and botanist who in Angola was the first European to describe the plant Welwitschia mirabilis. His report received wide attention among the botanists and general public, comparable only to the discovery of two other plants in the 19th century, namely Victoria amazonica and Rafflesia arnoldii."
tagline: "Austrian botanist and explorer (1806-1872)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Friedrich_Welwitsch_(IA_mobot31753003484141)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
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  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1806-02-25"
deathDate: "1872-10-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0.3256704980842912
  historical:           15.75273733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump