# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/otto-lilienthal
# Generated: 2026-09-02T06:55:18.264Z

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description: "He strapped wings to his back and jumped off hills two thousand times before the Wright brothers ever left the ground. The photographs — a man suspended in air, arms wide, 1890s Berlin below — made flight look not like a dream but like something you could build in a workshop and take outside."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Karl Wilhelm Otto Lilienthal was born in Prussia on 23 May 1848 and grew obsessed with the mechanics of bird flight. In 1891 he began leaping from hills near Berlin in gliders of his own design, refining the shape of the modern wing through repeated trial. Newspapers ran photographs of him airborne, shifting public opinion from skepticism to belief that heavier-than-air machines could work. His Normalsegelapparat went into series production, making his Maschinenfabrik the first airplane factory on earth. On 9 August 1896 his glider stalled at fifteen metres; he fell, broke his neck, and died the next day. The Wright brothers kept his photograph on their workshop wall.