# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/heinz-steinitz
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:14:46.888Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/heinz-steinitz"
name: "Heinz Steinitz"
slug: "heinz-steinitz"
description: "Heinz Steinitz was a senior Israeli marine biologist and herpetologist, Professor and Chairman of the Department of zoology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He laid the foundation for research and teaching in marine biology and oceanography in Israel. In 1968 he founded the Marine Biology Laboratory of the Hebrew University near Eilat, serving as its first director. He also served as a founding member of the Zoological Society of Israel and a co-founder of the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel."
tagline: "Israeli biologist (1909–1971)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Prof_Heinz_Steinitz%2C_1957.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Israel"
  isoCode: "IL"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1909-04-26"
deathDate: "1971-04-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.19
  momentum:             0.5617977528089887
  historical:           4.803384
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Heinz Steinitz"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz_Steinitz"
    title: "Heinz Steinitz"
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  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%94%D7%99%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%A5_%D7%A9%D7%98%D7%99%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%A5"
    title: "היינץ שטייניץ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz_Steinitz"
    title: "Heinz Steinitz"
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  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz_Steinitz"
    title: "Heinz Steinitz"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5700874"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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