# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/henning-eiler-petersen
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:01:50.703Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/henning-eiler-petersen"
name: "Henning Eiler Petersen"
slug: "henning-eiler-petersen"
description: "Henning Eiler (Ejler) Petersen was a Danish mycologist, botanist and marine biologist. He made a major contribution to unveiling the mysterious die-back of eel grass in Northern European waters in the early 20th century as a pathogen outbreak."
tagline: "Danish botanist (1877-1946)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1877"
deathDate: "1946"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.11
  momentum:             20.51724137931035
  historical:           5.468286666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Henning Eiler Petersen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henning_Eiler_Petersen"
    title: "Henning Eiler Petersen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henning_Eiler_Petersen"
    title: "Henning Eiler Petersen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henning_Petersen"
    title: "Henning Petersen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henning_Eiler_Petersen"
    title: "Henning Eiler Petersen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henning_Eiler_Petersen"
    title: "Henning Eiler Petersen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5714983"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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