# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wilhelm-meise
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:30:58.825Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wilhelm-meise"
name: "Wilhelm Meise"
slug: "wilhelm-meise"
description: "Wilhelm Meise was a German ornithologist. He studied at the University of Berlin from 1924 to 1928, where he did his Ph.D. dissertation on the distribution of the carrion crow and the hooded crow, and hybridization between them under the supervision of Professor Erwin Stresemann, (1889–1972). He also analysed taxonomic and historic relationships between the house sparrow and the Spanish sparrow in particular the status of the \"Italian sparrow\". He was curator of vertebrates at the Museum of Natural History in Dresden from 1929 until World War II."
tagline: "German zoologist and ornithologist (1901-2002)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Grabst%C3%A4tte_Wilhelm_Meise.jpg/330px-Grabst%C3%A4tte_Wilhelm_Meise.jpg"
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: "1901-09-12"
deathDate: "2002-08-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.14
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.537041333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wilhelm Meise"
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  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%87%D9%84%D9%85_%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "ويلهلم ميس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Meise_(evnoniour)"
    title: "Wilhelm Meise (evnoniour)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Meise_(Ornithologe)"
    title: "Wilhelm Meise (Ornithologe)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Meise"
    title: "Wilhelm Meise"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Meise"
    title: "Wilhelm Meise"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Meise"
    title: "Wilhelm Meise"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Meise"
    title: "Wilhelm Meise"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Meise"
    title: "Wilhelm Meise"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Meise"
    title: "Wilhelm Meise"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q67817"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump