# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-le-tanneux-de-saint-paul-illaire
# Generated: 2026-08-16T13:40:53.941Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walter-le-tanneux-de-saint-paul-illaire"
name: "Walter Le Tanneux de Saint Paul-Illaire"
slug: "walter-le-tanneux-de-saint-paul-illaire"
description: "Walter von Saint Paul-Illaire or Adalbert Emil Walter Le Tanneux von Saint Paul-Illaire was a German colonial official in East Africa. He hailed from the noble family of Le Tanneux von Saint Paul, which had moved to Prussia in the 17th century. The genus Saintpaulia of the African violet was named in his honour after he discovered it in the Usambara Mountains and had sent its seeds in 1893 to Hermann Wendland, the German botanist and Chief Royal gardener at the Herrenhausen Gardens in Hanover, who gave the plant its first description, calling it the Usambara veilchen."
tagline: "German colonial official (1860-1940)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/St.Paul-Illaire_(Allers).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1860-01-12"
deathDate: "1940-12-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.36
  momentum:             5.384615384615384
  historical:           5.472858666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_von_Saint_Paul-Illaire"
    title: "Walter von Saint Paul-Illaire"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D9%84%D9%88_%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88_%D8%AF%D9%88_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA_%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "والتر لو تانو دو سانت بول ايلير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_von_Saint_Paul-Illaire"
    title: "Walter von Saint Paul-Illaire"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_von_Saint_Paul-Illaire"
    title: "Walter von Saint Paul-Illaire"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_von_Saint_Paul-Illaire"
    title: "Walter von Saint Paul-Illaire"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B5%D0%BD-%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%2C_%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80_%D1%84%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Сен-Поль, Вальтер фон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q108020"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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