# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/georg-eberhard-rumphius
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:17:15.518Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/georg-eberhard-rumphius"
name: "Georg Eberhard Rumphius"
slug: "georg-eberhard-rumphius"
description: "Georg Eberhard Rumphius was a German-born botanist employed by the Dutch East India Company in what is now eastern Indonesia, and is best known for his work, Herbarium Amboinense, produced in the face of severe personal tragedies, including the death of his wife and a daughter in an earthquake, going blind from glaucoma, loss of his library and manuscripts in major fire, and losing early copies of his book when the ship carrying it was sunk."
tagline: "German-Dutch merchant, naturalist and botanist (1627-1702)"
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1627"
deathDate: "1702-06-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump