# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-wellnhofer
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:29:47.840Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-wellnhofer"
name: "Peter Wellnhofer"
slug: "peter-wellnhofer"
description: "Peter Wellnhofer is a German paleontologist at the Bayerische Staatssammlung fur Paläontologie in Munich. He is best known for his work on the various fossil specimens of Archaeopteryx or \"Urvogel\", the first known bird. Wellnhofer's other work includes The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Pterosaurs from 1991."
tagline: "German paleontologist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
birthDate: "1936"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  currentAttention:     0
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  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4971508/"
    handle:    "nm4971508"
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    title: "Peter Wellnhofer"
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    title: "بيتر ويلهوفر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Peter Wellnhofer"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Wellnhofer"
    title: "Peter Wellnhofer"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Wellnhofer"
    title: "Peter Wellnhofer"
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    title: "Peter Wellnhofer"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump