# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/karl-kehrle
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:15:10.233Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/karl-kehrle"
name: "Karl Kehrle"
slug: "karl-kehrle"
description: "Karl Kehrle OSB OBE, known as Brother Adam, was a Benedictine monk, beekeeper, and an authority on bee breeding, developer of the Buckfast bee.\"He was unsurpassed as a breeder of bees. He talked to them, he stroked them. He brought to the hives a calmness that, according to those who saw him at work, the sensitive bees responded to.\" – The Economist, 14 September 1996"
tagline: "German-born British Benedictine monk and apiculturist (1898-1996)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bruder_Adam_ScAD0009.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
birthDate: "1898-08-03"
deathDate: "1996-09-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.21
  momentum:             1.676829268292683
  historical:           11.827576
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Karl Kehrle"
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    title: "كارل كيرل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Kehrle"
    title: "Karl Kehrle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Kehrle"
    title: "Karl Kehrle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Kehrle"
    title: "Karl Kehrle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruder_Adam"
    title: "Bruder Adam"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Kehrle"
    title: "Karl Kehrle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Kehrle"
    title: "Karl Kehrle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Kehrle"
    title: "Karl Kehrle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padre_Adam"
    title: "Padre Adam"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Kehrle"
    title: "Karl Kehrle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Kehrle"
    title: "Karl Kehrle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Kehrle"
    title: "Karl Kehrle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BB%D0%B5%2C_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BB"
    title: "Керле, Карл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q70401"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump