# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/otto-kleinschmidt
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:50:15.702Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/otto-kleinschmidt"
name: "Otto Kleinschmidt"
slug: "otto-kleinschmidt"
description: "Otto Kleinschmidt was a German ornithologist, theologist and pastor. He was also an artist and taxidermist who produced specimens and illustrations of birds for his writings. He was critical of Darwinian ideas on evolution and natural selection and developed a kind of creationist superspecies concept called Formenkreis which involved variation with geographic dispersal that he illustrated with what he called \"geogramms\". He edited a periodical Falco which was a companion to a monograph series called Berajah. After speculating on the variations of birds he also examined human variation and gave theories that have been interpreted variously as a form of scientific racism."
tagline: "German pastor and ornithologist (1870-1954)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "DE"
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birthDate: "1870-12-13"
deathDate: "1954-03-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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  country:  null
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    title: "Отто Кляйншмідт"
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    title: "اوتو كلينشميت"
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    title: "Otto Kleinschmidt"
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  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Kleinschmidt"
    title: "Otto Kleinschmidt"
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  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Kleinschmidt"
    title: "Otto Kleinschmidt"
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    title: "Otto Kleinschmidt"
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    title: "Otto Kleinschmidt"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump