# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/samuel-thomas-von-sommerring
# Generated: 2026-08-15T03:41:25.299Z

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name: "Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring"
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description: "Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring was a German medical doctor, anatomist, anthropologist, paleontologist and inventor. Sömmerring discovered the macula in the retina of the human eye. His investigations on the brain and the nervous system, on the sensory organs, on the embryo and its malformations, on the structure of the lungs, etc., made him one of the most important German anatomists."
tagline: "German anatomist and paleontologist (1755–1830)"
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birthDate: "1755-01-28"
deathDate: "1830-03-02"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump