# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/siegfried-scherer
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:52:22.983Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/siegfried-scherer"
name: "Siegfried Scherer"
slug: "siegfried-scherer"
description: "Siegfried Scherer is a German biologist, since 1991 Professor of Microbiology at the Technical University of Munich, Weihenstephan since 1991, where he is Managing Director of the Nutrition and Food Research Center ZIEL. Scherer is not a prominent creationist as often purported. He believes that religion and science are two different ways of approaching reality. He is married to anthropologist Sigrid Hartwig-Scherer."
tagline: "German biologist"
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: "1955-04-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.94
  momentum:             10
  historical:           5.482182666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Siegfried Scherer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%BA%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "سيغفريد شيرير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "سيجفريد شيرير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegfried_Scherer"
    title: "Siegfried Scherer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegfried_Scherer"
    title: "Siegfried Scherer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegfried_Scherer"
    title: "Siegfried Scherer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q89818"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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