# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/louis-lewin
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:52:00.266Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/louis-lewin"
name: "Louis Lewin"
slug: "louis-lewin"
description: "Louis Lewin was a German pharmacologist. In 1887 he received his first sample of the Peyote cactus from Dallas, Texas-based physician John Raleigh Briggs (1851-1907), and later published the first methodical analysis of it, causing a variant to be named Anhalonium lewinii in his honor."
tagline: "1850-1929 German botanist and pharmacologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Louis_Lewin_(1850-1929).jpg?width=1200"
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: "1850-11-09"
deathDate: "1929-12-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.3
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.077898666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Louis Lewin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "لويس ليفين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "لويس ليفين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Lewin"
    title: "Louis Lewin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Lewin"
    title: "Louis Lewin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Lewin"
    title: "Louis Lewin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Lewin"
    title: "Louis Lewin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Lewin"
    title: "Louis Lewin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Lewin"
    title: "Louis Lewin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q72572"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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