# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wilhelm-philippe-schimper
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:42:52.314Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wilhelm-philippe-schimper"
name: "Wilhelm Philippe Schimper"
slug: "wilhelm-philippe-schimper"
description: "Wilhelm Philippe Schimper was an Alsatian botanist with French, later German citizenship. He was born in Dossenheim-sur-Zinsel, but spent his youth in Offwiller, a village at the foot of the Vosges mountain range in Alsace. He was the father of botanist Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper (1856–1901), and a cousin to naturalist Karl Friedrich Schimper (1803–1867) and botanist Georg Heinrich Wilhelm Schimper (1804–1878)."
tagline: "German-French botanist (1808-1880)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Professeur_Schimper.jpg?width=1200"
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: "1808-01-12"
deathDate: "1880-03-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.42
  momentum:             0.0495049504950495
  historical:           14.207308
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Вільгельм Шимпер"
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    title: "Wilhelm Philipp Schimper"
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  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Philipp_Schimper"
    title: "Wilhelm Philipp Schimper"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Philippe_Schimper"
    title: "Wilhelm Philippe Schimper"
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    title: "Wilhelm Philipp Schimper"
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  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Philipp_Schimper"
    title: "Wilhelm Philipp Schimper"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume_Philippe_Schimper"
    title: "Guillaume Philippe Schimper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BC_%D0%A4%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%BF"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump