# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-wittich
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:28:27.564Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-wittich"
name: "Paul Wittich"
slug: "paul-wittich"
description: "Paul Wittich was a German mathematician and astronomer whose Capellan geoheliocentric model, in which the inner planets Mercury and Venus orbit the Sun but the outer planets Mars, Jupiter and Saturn orbit the Earth, may have directly inspired Tycho Brahe's more radically heliocentric geoheliocentric model in which all the 5 known primary planets orbited the Sun, which in turn orbited the stationary Earth."
tagline: "German mathematician and astronomer (died 1587)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Tychonian_system.svg/330px-Tychonian_system.svg.png"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1546"
deathDate: "1586-01-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.36
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.470122666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Wittich"
    title: "Paul Wittich"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%84_%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B4"
    title: "بول ويتيش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Wittich"
    title: "Paul Wittich"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%85%2C_%D0%9F%D0%B0%D1%83%D0%BB%D1%8C"
    title: "Виттих, Пауль"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Wittich"
    title: "Paul Wittich"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Wittich"
    title: "Paul Wittich"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q88089"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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