# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/karlheinz-senghas
# Generated: 2026-08-15T08:33:24.920Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/karlheinz-senghas"
name: "Karlheinz Senghas"
slug: "karlheinz-senghas"
description: "Karlheinz Senghas was a German botanist and orchidologist. He was a curator, scientific director, and academic director of the University of Heidelberg's Botanical Garden from 1960 until his retirement in 1993. He was also president of the Deutsche Orchideen-Gesellschaft in the 1970s and was the co-publisher and editor of several volumes of Die Orchideen, a continuation of the publication begun by Rudolf Schlechter."
tagline: "German botanist and orchidologist (1928-2004)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1928-04-07"
deathDate: "2004-02-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.34
  momentum:             3.783783783783784
  historical:           8.068502666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Karlheinz Senghas"
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    title: "كارلهاينز سينجاس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Karlheinz Senghas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karlheinz_Senghas"
    title: "Karlheinz Senghas"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karlheinz_Senghas"
    title: "Karlheinz Senghas"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karlheinz_Senghas"
    title: "Karlheinz Senghas"
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  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%8F%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%83%84%E3%83%BB%E3%82%BC%E3%83%B3%E3%82%AC%E3%82%B9"
    title: "カールハインツ・ゼンガス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karlheinz_Senghas"
    title: "Karlheinz Senghas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karlheinz_Senghas"
    title: "Karlheinz Senghas"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump