# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/heini-hediger
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:10:03.829Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/heini-hediger"
name: "Heini Hediger"
slug: "heini-hediger"
description: "Heini Hediger was a Swiss biologist noted for work in proxemics in animal behavior and is known as the \"father of zoo biology\". Hediger was formerly the director of Tierpark Dählhölzli (1938–1943), Zoo Basel (1944–1953) and Zürich Zoo (1954–1973)."
tagline: "Swiss zoologist (1908-1992)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Switzerland"
  isoCode: "CH"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1908-11-30"
deathDate: "1992-08-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.8
  momentum:             15.26119402985075
  historical:           6.143233333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heini_Hediger"
    title: "Heini Hediger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A_%D9%87%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%AC%D8%B1"
    title: "هيني هديجر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%89_%D9%87%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%AC%D8%B1"
    title: "هينى هديجر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heini_Hediger"
    title: "Heini Hediger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heini_Hediger"
    title: "Heini Hediger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heini_Hediger"
    title: "Heini Hediger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heini_Hediger"
    title: "Heini Hediger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124702"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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