# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/selmar-schonland
# Generated: 2026-09-07T22:18:15.420Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/selmar-schonland"
name: "Selmar Schonland"
slug: "selmar-schonland"
description: "Selmar Schonland, originally spelt Schönland, the founder of the Department of Botany at Rhodes University, was a German immigrant, who came to the Eastern part of the Cape Colony in 1889 to take up an appointment as curator of the Albany Museum. He came to Grahamstown via a doctorate at the University of Hamburg and a post at Oxford University. Working under Prof. Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour and Prof. Sydney Howard Vines, he developed an interest in the family Crassulaceae and contributed an account of this group to Engler & Prantl's Natürl. Pflanzenfamilien."
tagline: "South African botanist (1860-1940)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Schonland_Pretoria.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1860-08-15"
deathDate: "1940-04-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.73596133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Зельмар Шонланд"
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    title: "سيلمار شونلاند"
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    title: "Selmar Schönland"
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    title: "Selmar Schönland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selmar_Schonland"
    title: "Selmar Schonland"
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    title: "Selmar Schönland"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selmar_Sch%C3%B6nland"
    title: "Selmar Schönland"
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  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selmar_Schonland"
    title: "Selmar Schonland"
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    title: "Selmar Schonland"
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  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D1%91%D0%BD%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%2C_%D0%97%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%80"
    title: "Шёнланд, Зельмар"
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  - url: "https://so.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selmar_Schonland"
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  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selmar_Sch%C3%B6nland"
    title: "Selmar Schönland"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump