# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/karl-ru
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:35:14.818Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/karl-ru"
name: "Karl Ruß"
slug: "karl-ru"
description: "Karl Friedrich Otto Ruß was a Prussian pharmacist, aviculturist, author of bird-keeping books, and the founding editor of the world's first bird-fancier magazine Die Gefiederte Welt. Along with Bruno Dürigen, he also founded the magazine Isis in 1876. He sometimes wrote under the pseudonym \"Berthold Schwarz\". He was among the few who managed to breed the now extinct Carolina parakeets in captivity."
tagline: "Ornithologist, pharmacist and writer (1833–1899)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Die_gefiederte_Welt._Jg._028%2C_1899_-_Dr._Karl_Ru%C3%9F_(crop_2).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1833-01-14"
deathDate: "1899-09-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.04
  momentum:             4.307692307692308
  historical:           5.470014666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Ru%C3%9F_(Schriftsteller)"
    title: "Karl Ruß (Schriftsteller)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84_%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B3"
    title: "كارل روس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84_%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B3_(%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85_%D8%B7%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B1_%D9%85%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%AD%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%89)"
    title: "كارل روس (عالم طيور من الاتحاد الالمانى)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D1%83%D1%81%D1%81%2C_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BB"
    title: "Русс, Карл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Russ"
    title: "Karl Russ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Ru%C3%9F"
    title: "Karl Ruß"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q105791"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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