# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-ernest-kunze
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:44:07.322Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-ernest-kunze"
name: "Richard Ernest Kunze"
slug: "richard-ernest-kunze"
description: "Richard Ernest Kunze was a physician. He came to the United States in 1854, and was graduated at the Eclectic Medical College of New York in 1868, subsequently becoming a member of the board of trustees of this institution, was president of the New York Therapeutical Association in 1880, introduced to the medical profession various drugs derived from cacti, and added greatly to the previous knowledge of medical botany. He published a series of monographs on Cactus ; Cereus Grandiflorus and Cereus bonplandi (1876); Cereus triangularis and Phyllocactus grandis (1876); Cardinal Points in the Study of Medical Botany ; and The Germination and Vitality of Seeds (1881)."
tagline: "American botanist (1838-1919)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1838-04-07"
deathDate: "1919"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           26.22
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.400468
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "ريتشارد إرنست كونزي"
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    title: "রিচার্ড আর্নেস্ট কানজা"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump