# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/heinrich-cotta
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:55:36.792Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/heinrich-cotta"
name: "Heinrich Cotta"
slug: "heinrich-cotta"
description: "Johann Heinrich Cotta was a German silviculturist who was a native of Kleine Zillbach, near Wasungen, Thuringia. He was founder of the Royal Saxon Academy of Forestry, in Tharandt, and is known as a pioneer of scientific forestry along with Georg Ludwig Hartig, Friedrich Wilhelm Leopold Pfeil, Johann Christian Hundeshagen, and Carl Justus Heyer. He was the father of the geologist Bernhard von Cotta (1808–1879)."
tagline: "German forester and silviculturist (1763 – 1844)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Heinrich_Cotta_1833.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1763-10-30"
deathDate: "1844-10-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.43
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.816704
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Heinrich Cotta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Cotta"
    title: "Heinrich Cotta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "هاينريش كوتا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_von_Cotta"
    title: "Heinrich von Cotta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Cotta"
    title: "Heinrich Cotta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Cotta"
    title: "Heinrich Cotta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Cotta"
    title: "Heinrich Cotta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Heinrich_Cotta"
    title: "Johann Heinrich Cotta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Cotta"
    title: "Heinrich Cotta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Cotta"
    title: "Heinrich Cotta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henricus_Cotta"
    title: "Henricus Cotta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Cotta"
    title: "Heinrich Cotta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Cotta"
    title: "Heinrich Cotta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D1%82%D1%82%D0%B0%2C_%D0%93%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%85"
    title: "Котта, Генрих"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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