# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/otto-von-wettstein
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:30:11.372Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/otto-von-wettstein"
name: "Otto von Wettstein"
slug: "otto-von-wettstein"
description: "Otto von Wettstein, name also given as Otto Wettstein-Westersheimb, was an Austrian zoologist. He was the son of botanist Richard Wettstein and the brother of botanist Fritz von Wettstein. He is best remembered for his work in the field of herpetology; of his 205 published scientific papers, 60 of these involved herpetological topics."
tagline: "Austrian herpetologist (1892-1967)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Austria"
  isoCode: "AT"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1892-08-07"
deathDate: "1967-07-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           34.69
  momentum:             0.1886792452830189
  historical:           5.468610666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_von_Wettstein"
    title: "Otto von Wettstein"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%AA%D9%88_%DA%A4%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "اوتو ڤون ويتستين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Wettstein-Westersheimb"
    title: "Otto Wettstein-Westersheimb"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_von_Wettstein"
    title: "Otto von Wettstein"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_von_Wettstein"
    title: "Otto von Wettstein"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Wettstein-Westersheimb"
    title: "Otto Wettstein-Westersheimb"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q94325"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump