# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/justus-friedrich-carl-hecker
# Generated: 2026-08-15T06:48:18.734Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/justus-friedrich-carl-hecker"
name: "Justus Friedrich Carl Hecker"
slug: "justus-friedrich-carl-hecker"
description: "Justus Friedrich Karl Hecker was a German medical doctor and medical writer, whose works appear in medical encyclopaedias and journals of the time. He particularly studied disease in relation to human history, including plague, smallpox, infant mortality, dancing mania and the sweating sickness, and is often said to have founded the study of the history of disease."
tagline: "German physician and medical writer (1795–1850)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Justus_Friedrich_Karl_Hecker.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1795-01-05"
deathDate: "1850-05-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  historical:           8.541001333333334
  currentAttention:     0
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justus_Hecker"
    title: "Justus Hecker"
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    title: "Justus Hecker"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump