# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walther-horn
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:53:02.242Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walther-horn"
name: "Walther Horn"
slug: "walther-horn"
description: "Walther Hermann Richard Horn was a German physician and entomologist who specialised in beetles (Coleoptera), particularly the tiger beetles. He became the founding director of the German entomological institute where he collaborated with entomologists around the world. He is not to be confused with the American entomologist George Henry Horn who also studied Coleoptera."
tagline: "German entomologist (1871–1939)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dr._Walther_Horn%2C_Portraitgem%C3%A4lde_von_Ernst_Bischoff-Culm%2C_1916.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1871-10-19"
deathDate: "1939-07-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.758620689655172
  historical:           7.870662666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Walther Horn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Βάλτερ Χορν"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walther_Horn"
    title: "Walther Horn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walther_Hermann_Richard_Horn"
    title: "Walther Hermann Richard Horn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walther_Hermann_Richard_Horn"
    title: "Walther Hermann Richard Horn"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump