# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/melchior-neumayr
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:07:42.482Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/melchior-neumayr"
name: "Melchior Neumayr"
slug: "melchior-neumayr"
description: "Melchior Neumayr was a palaeontologist from Austria-Hungary and the son of Max von Neumayr, a Bavarian Minister of State. He specialized on the Jurassic and Cretaceous of the Alps. Neumayr introduced the concept of the Tethys sea in 1885, calling it the Jurassic seaway. The name \"Tethys\" was given by his father-in-law Eduard Suess."
tagline: "Austrian paleontologist (1845-1890)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Melchior_Neumayr.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1845-10-24"
deathDate: "1890-01-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.789473684210526
  historical:           12.67069866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump