# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/karl-ferdinand-appun
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:22:36.034Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/karl-ferdinand-appun"
name: "Karl Ferdinand Appun"
slug: "karl-ferdinand-appun"
description: "Carl Ferdinand Appun was a German naturalist.\nOn the recommendation of Alexander von Humboldt Appun was employed by Frederick William IV of Prussia as a botanist in Venezuela where excepting a one-year break in Germany, he spent ten years exploring the flora. After that he went to British Guayana, where he researched as a botanist on behalf the British government. He also visited parts of Brazil -the Rio Branco and Rio Negro on the Amazon to Tabatinga. During a visit in Germany (1868–1871) he published a set of essays in different magazines. His best known work Unter den Tropen was at that time extremely popular. In 1871 he undertook a second exploration of Guyana, where he had an accident which led to his death. His last writings were essays about Indigenous peoples in Venezuela. \nAppun described many new plant species and is also known as an entomologist."
tagline: "German scientist (1820-1872)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Carl_Ferdinand_Appun.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1820-05-24"
deathDate: "1872-07-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             1.363636363636363
  historical:           8.537833333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Carl Ferdinand Appun"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump