# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/herbert-walter-levi
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:02:01.160Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/herbert-walter-levi"
name: "Herbert Walter Levi"
slug: "herbert-walter-levi"
description: "Herbert Walter Levi was professor emeritus of zoology and curator of arachnology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University. He was born in Germany, and was educated there and at Leighton Park School, Reading in England. He then received his higher education at the University of Connecticut and the University of Wisconsin. Levi authored about 150 scientific papers on spiders and on biological conservation. He is the author of the popular Golden Guide Spiders and their Kin, with Lorna Rose Levi and Herbert Zim."
tagline: "American arachnologist (1921–2014)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Herbert_Walter_Levi_at_his_scope.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
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profileType:
  name: "Academic"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1921-01-03"
deathDate: "2014-11-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Walter_Levi"
    title: "Herbert Walter Levi"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump