# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/karl-w-butzer
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:58:58.474Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/karl-w-butzer"
name: "Karl W. Butzer"
slug: "karl-w-butzer"
description: "Karl W. Butzer was a German-born American geographer, ecologist, and archaeologist. He received two degrees at McGill University, Montreal: the B.Sc. (hons) in Mathematics in 1954 and later his master's degree in Meteorology and Geography. Afterwards in the 1950s he returned to Germany to the University of Bonn to obtain a doctorate in physical geography. He obtained a master's degree in Meteorology and Geography from McGill University and a doctorate in physical geography from the University of Bonn in Germany."
tagline: "American geographer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Butzer_karl.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1934-08-19"
deathDate: "2016-05-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.15
  momentum:             6.428571428571429
  historical:           5.938481333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_W._Butzer"
    title: "Karl W. Butzer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84_%D8%AF%D8%A8%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88_%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B2%D8%B1"
    title: "كارل دبليو بوتزر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_W._Butzer"
    title: "Karl W. Butzer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Butzer"
    title: "Karl Butzer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Butzer"
    title: "Karl Butzer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Butzer"
    title: "Karl Butzer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_W._Butzer"
    title: "Karl W. Butzer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q214478"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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