# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gustav-kramer
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:14:43.580Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gustav-kramer"
name: "Gustav Kramer"
slug: "gustav-kramer"
description: "Gustav Kramer was a German zoologist and ornithologist who specialised in allometry. He described Xenopus laevis, the African clawed frog, for the first time in his doctoral thesis. Near the end of the 1940s, he discovered that birds can use the sun as a compass."
tagline: "German zoologist and ornithologist (1910–1959)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1910-03-11"
deathDate: "1959-04-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.84
  momentum:             2.727272727272728
  historical:           5.939597333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%BA%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%81_%D9%83%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B1"
    title: "غوستاف كرامر"
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    title: "جوستاف كرامر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Kramer_(Zoologe)"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Kramer"
    title: "Gustav Kramer"
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  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Kramer"
    title: "Gustav Kramer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q103407"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1900341"
    title: "Gustav Kramer"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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