# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ludwig-heck
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:28:46.923Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ludwig-heck"
name: "Ludwig Heck"
slug: "ludwig-heck"
description: "Ludwig Franz Friedrich Georg Heck was a German zoologist who served as the director of Berlin Zoo from 1888 to 1931. He was the father of the zoologists Lutz and Heinz Heck. Heck was a national socialist and on his 80th birthday he was personally awarded the Goethe Medal for Art and Science by Adolf Hitler. Heck contributed to a revision of Brehm's Tierleben and a species of monkey, Heck's macaque and a subspecies of the long-tailed finch Poephila acuticauda hecki are named after him."
tagline: "Director of the Berlin Zoological Gardens (1860-1951)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LA2-Blitz-0153_Lutz_Heck_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
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: "1860-08-11"
deathDate: "1951-07-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.71
  momentum:             6.136363636363638
  historical:           7.874586666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Ludwig Heck"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "لودويغ هيك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "لودويج هيك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Heck_(Zoologe)"
    title: "Ludwig Heck (Zoologe)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Heck"
    title: "Ludwig Heck"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Heck"
    title: "Ludwig Heck"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Heck"
    title: "Ludwig Heck"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Heck"
    title: "Ludwig Heck"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%B5%D0%BA%2C_%D0%9B%D1%8E%D0%B4%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B3"
    title: "Хек, Людвиг"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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