# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/karl-wilhelm-ludwig-pappe
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:57:41.660Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/karl-wilhelm-ludwig-pappe"
name: "Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Pappe"
slug: "karl-wilhelm-ludwig-pappe"
description: "Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Pappe was a German-born medical doctor and botanist who lived and worked in Cape Colony. He was the first person to hold the position of government botanist and the first professor of botany at the South African College. His herbarium became the oldest surviving botanical collection in South Africa."
tagline: "German-born physician and botanist (1803-1862)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Karl_Wilhelm_Ludwig_Pappe00.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1803"
deathDate: "1862-10-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.08
  momentum:             15
  historical:           7.668646666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Pappe"
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    title: "كارل فيلهلم لودفيج كرتون"
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    title: "Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Pappe"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Wilhelm_Ludwig_Pappe"
    title: "Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Pappe"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Wilhelm_Ludwig_Pappe"
    title: "Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Pappe"
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  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Wilhelm_Ludwig_Pappe"
    title: "Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Pappe"
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  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Wilhelm_Ludwig_Pappe"
    title: "Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Pappe"
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    title: "Паппе, Карл Вильгельм Людвиг"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump