# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/johann-sperling
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:48:35.263Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/johann-sperling"
name: "Johann Sperling"
slug: "johann-sperling"
description: "Johann Sperling was a German physician, zoologist and physicist, deacon and Rektor of the University of Wittenberg. He was among the first to practise zoology as a natural science, writing a first handbook about animals, Zoologia physica."
tagline: "German zoologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Johann-Sperling.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1603-07-12"
deathDate: "1658-08-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           34.33
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.80198
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%88%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%B3%D9%BE%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AC"
    title: "چوهان سپيرلينج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Sperling_(Mediziner)"
    title: "Johann Sperling (Mediziner)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Sperling"
    title: "Johann Sperling"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Sperling"
    title: "Johann Sperling"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Sperling"
    title: "Johann Sperling"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q105398"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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