# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/otto-kraus
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:15:55.814Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/otto-kraus"
name: "Otto Kraus"
slug: "otto-kraus"
description: "Otto Kraus was a German arachnologist and myriapodologist. He was director of the Zoological Institute and Zoological Museum at the University of Hamburg from 1969 to 1995, where he also served as professor. He was a commissioner (1963–1995) and president (1989–1995) of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN). He published nearly 200 scientific papers and described nearly 500 species of myriapods and over 80 species of spiders. His works include contributions to the encyclopedia Grzimeks Tierleben and the German translation of Ernst Mayr's Principles of Systematic Zoology."
tagline: "German zoologist (1930–2017)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1930-05-17"
deathDate: "2017-10-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             4.615384615384616
  historical:           6.337437333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Otto Kraus"
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    title: "أوتو كراوس"
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    title: "اوتو كراوس"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Kraus"
    title: "Otto Kraus"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Kraus"
    title: "Otto Kraus"
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  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Kraus"
    title: "Otto Kraus"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump