# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-hertwig
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:25:20.248Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-hertwig"
name: "Richard Hertwig"
slug: "richard-hertwig"
description: "Richard Wilhelm Karl Theodor Ritter von Hertwig, also Richard Hertwig or Richard von Hertwig, was a German zoologist and professor of 50 years, notable as the first to describe zygote formation as the fusing of spermatozoa inside the membrane of an egg cell during fertilization.\nRichard Hertwig was the younger brother of Oscar Hertwig, who also analyzed zygote formation."
tagline: "German zoologist (1850-1937)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Richard_Hertwig_1930.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1850-09-23"
deathDate: "1937-10-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.73469387755102
  historical:           10.93747333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Richard von Hertwig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ريتشارد هيرتويغ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Рыхард Гертвіг"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_von_Hertwig"
    title: "Richard von Hertwig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hertwig"
    title: "Richard Hertwig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hertwig"
    title: "Richard Hertwig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_von_Hertwig"
    title: "Richard von Hertwig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hertwig"
    title: "Richard Hertwig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hertwig"
    title: "Richard Hertwig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hertwig"
    title: "Richard Hertwig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Гертвиг, Рихард фон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hertwig"
    title: "Richard Hertwig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q85907"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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