# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-semon
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:02:18.790Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-semon"
name: "Richard Semon"
slug: "richard-semon"
description: "Richard Wolfgang Semon was a German zoologist, explorer, evolutionary biologist and memory researcher who believed in the inheritance of acquired characteristics and applied this to social evolution. He is known for coining the terms engram and ecphory. He wrote about these ideas in his book Die Mneme (1904). He propounded the idea that organisms acquired bodily memory based on environment and experience that was imprinted in tissues and could be transmitted across generations, a form of epigenetics."
tagline: "German zoologist (1859-1918)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Richard_Semon_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1859-08-22"
deathDate: "1918-12-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.31
  momentum:             6.106194690265489
  historical:           10.88488266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Richard Semon"
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    title: "ريتشارد سيمون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ريتشارد سيمون"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Semon"
    title: "Richard Semon"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Semon"
    title: "Richard Semon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%86%D8%A7%D8%B1_%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "ریچار سمون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Wolfgang_Semon"
    title: "Richard Wolfgang Semon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A6%AC%ED%95%98%EB%A5%B4%ED%8A%B8_%EC%A7%80%EB%AA%AC"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Semon"
    title: "Richard Semon"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump