# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leonhard-schultze
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:34:08.090Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leonhard-schultze"
name: "Leonhard Schultze"
slug: "leonhard-schultze"
description: "Leonhard Sigmund Friedrich Kuno Klaus Schultze-Jena was a German explorer, zoologist, and anthropologist known for his explorations of German Southwest Africa and New Guinea, as well as for his studies on Mesoamerican languages. During the Herero and Namaqua genocide, Schultze, a witness, took \"body parts from fresh native corpses\" which according to him was a \"welcome addition\". He also noted that he could use prisoners for that purpose."
tagline: "German anthropologist and zoologist (1872-1955)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1872-05-28"
deathDate: "1955-03-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.15
  momentum:             6.250000000000002
  historical:           6.138337333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Leonhard Schultze-Jena"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "يونارد شولتز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4_%D0%A8%D1%83%D0%BB%D1%86%D0%B5_%D0%99%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B0"
    title: "Леонард Шулце Йена"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonhard_Schultze-Jena"
    title: "Leonhard Schultze-Jena"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonhard_Schultze-Jena"
    title: "Leonhard Schultze-Jena"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4_%D0%A8%D1%83%D0%BB%D1%86%D0%B5_%D0%88%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B0"
    title: "Леонард Шулце Јена"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonhard_Schultze-Jena"
    title: "Leonhard Schultze-Jena"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q106785"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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