# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hans-reck
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:39:50.669Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hans-reck"
name: "Hans Reck"
slug: "hans-reck"
description: "Hans Gottfried Reck was a German volcanologist and paleontologist. In 1913, he was the first to discover an ancient skeleton of a human in the Olduvai Gorge, in what is now Tanzania. The fossil elephant Palaeoloxodon recki discovered at the same site is named after him. He collaborated with Louis Leakey in a return expedition to the site in 1931."
tagline: "German geologist and palaeontologist (1886-1937)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/96/Hans_Reck.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1886-01-24"
deathDate: "1937-08-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.45
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.471598666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Reck"
    title: "Hans Reck"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3_%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83"
    title: "هانس ريك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Reck_(Geologe)"
    title: "Hans Reck (Geologe)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Gottfried_Reck"
    title: "Hans Gottfried Reck"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Reck"
    title: "Hans Reck"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B5%D0%BA%2C_%D0%93%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81"
    title: "Рек, Ганс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q87826"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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