# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/oscar-hertwig
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:57:07.436Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/oscar-hertwig"
name: "Oscar Hertwig"
slug: "oscar-hertwig"
description: "Oscar Hertwig was a German embryologist and zoologist known for his research in developmental biology and evolution. Hertwig is credited as the first person to observe sexual reproduction at the cellular level, by looking at the cells of sea urchins under the microscope."
tagline: "German zoologist (1849–1922)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Oskar_Hertwig.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "DE"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1849-04-21"
deathDate: "1922-10-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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