# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/theodor-koch-grunberg
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:42:09.464Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/theodor-koch-grunberg"
name: "Theodor Koch-Grünberg"
slug: "theodor-koch-grunberg"
description: "Theodor Koch-Grünberg was a German ethnologist and explorer who travelled and studied the Indigenous peoples in South America, in particular the Pemon of Venezuela and other indigenous peoples in the Amazon region extending South-Western Brazil and a large part of the Vaupés region in Colombia. The 2015 film El abrazo de la serpiente fictionalizes his illness and final days based on his journals."
tagline: "German ethnologist (1872-1924)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Theodor_Koch-Gr%C3%BCnberg.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: "1872-04-09"
deathDate: "1924-10-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.84
  momentum:             4.727415553809898
  historical:           7.888158666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "ثيودور كوتش جرونبيرج"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_Koch-Gr%C3%BCnberg"
    title: "Theodor Koch-Grünberg"
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    title: "Theodor Koch-Grünberg"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump