# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/heinrich-balss
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:04:09.475Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/heinrich-balss"
name: "Heinrich Balss"
slug: "heinrich-balss"
description: "Heinrich Balss was a German zoologist, specialising in Crustacea, especially decapods. He was the chief conservator at the Zoologische Staatssammlung at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, and wrote the sections on decapods and stomatopods in Heinrich Georg Bronn's seminal work Klassen und Ordnungen des Tierreichs."
tagline: "German zoologist and carcinologist (1886–1957)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Writers"
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profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1886-06-03"
deathDate: "1957-09-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.334773333333334
  currentAttention:     0
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  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump