# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ludwig-plate
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:11:34.095Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ludwig-plate"
name: "Ludwig Plate"
slug: "ludwig-plate"
description: "Ludwig Hermann Plate was a German zoologist and student of Ernst Haeckel. He wrote a \"thorough and extensive defence\" of Darwinism, but before Mendel's work had been assimilated in the modern synthesis."
tagline: "German zoologist (1862–1937)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ludwig_Plate_(BerlLeben_1901-09).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: "1862-08-16"
deathDate: "1937-11-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.51
  momentum:             15
  historical:           4.603744
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "لوحة لودفيج هيرمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Plate_(Zoologe)"
    title: "Ludwig Plate (Zoologe)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Hermann_Plate"
    title: "Ludwig Hermann Plate"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Hermann_Plate"
    title: "Ludwig Hermann Plate"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Plate"
    title: "Ludwig Plate"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q88702"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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