# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hermann-fol
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:40:04.501Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hermann-fol"
name: "Hermann Fol"
slug: "hermann-fol"
description: "Hermann Fol was a Swiss zoologist and has been considered a pioneer of embryology. He studied under Édouard Claparède and Ernst Haeckel and took a special interest in the fertilization and embryology of echinoderms. He also innovated scientific devices, examined the safety of drinking water and was interested in rabies vaccinations. He was involved in establishing a marine biology laboratory at Villefranche-sur-Me and vanished at sea aboard a small yacht, the Aster, which left on 13 March from Le Havre and he was last known living on 17th March. The boat was later discovered off the coast of west Africa with nobody aboard."
tagline: "Swiss zoologist (1845-1892)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hermann_Fol.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Switzerland"
  isoCode: "CH"
birthDate: "1845-07-23"
deathDate: "1892-03-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.18
  momentum:             9.729729729729732
  historical:           8.072786666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  246
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Hermann Fol"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%81%D9%88%D9%84"
    title: "هيرمان فول"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Fol"
    title: "Hermann Fol"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Fol"
    title: "Hermann Fol"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Fol"
    title: "Hermann Fol"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Fol"
    title: "Hermann Fol"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Fol"
    title: "Hermann Fol"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Fol"
    title: "Hermann Fol"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%2C_%D0%93%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD"
    title: "Фоль, Герман"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q115929"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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