# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/johannes-schmidt
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:21:47.967Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/johannes-schmidt"
name: "Johannes Schmidt"
slug: "johannes-schmidt"
description: "Ernst Johannes Schmidt was a Danish biologist credited with discovering in 1920 that European eels migrate to the Sargasso Sea to spawn. Before this, people in North America and Europe had wondered where the small glass eels, or elvers, came from."
tagline: "Danish botanist and marine biologist (1877-1933)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Johannes_Schmidt_in_the_laboratory.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1877-01-02"
deathDate: "1933-02-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump