# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/georg-wilhelm-schimper
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:15:24.075Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/georg-wilhelm-schimper"
name: "Georg Wilhelm Schimper"
slug: "georg-wilhelm-schimper"
description: "Georg Heinrich Wilhelm Schimper, in Amharic sources known as Sambar, was a German botanist and naturalist who spent more than forty years in Ethiopia collecting specimens of plants, mainly in Semien, the Tekeze area and around Adwa. Schimper discovered more new African plant species than possibly any other botanist, and numerous plant species bear the epithet Schimperi/Schimperiana."
tagline: "German botanist (1804-1878)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1804-08-02"
deathDate: "1878-10-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.45
  momentum:             15
  historical:           7.205652000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Schimper"
    title: "Wilhelm Schimper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AC_%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%87%D9%84%D9%85_%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%A8%D8%B1"
    title: "جورج فيلهلم شيمبر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Schimper"
    title: "Wilhelm Schimper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Wilhelm_Schimper"
    title: "Georg Wilhelm Schimper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Wilhelm_Schimper"
    title: "Georg Wilhelm Schimper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Wilhelm_Schimper"
    title: "Georg Wilhelm Schimper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Schimper"
    title: "Wilhelm Schimper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Heinrich_Wilhelm_Schimper"
    title: "Georg Heinrich Wilhelm Schimper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q72899"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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