# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wilhelm-ritter
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:03:37.807Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wilhelm-ritter"
name: "Wilhelm Ritter"
slug: "wilhelm-ritter"
description: "Karl Wilhelm Ritter was a Swiss civil engineer, professor of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, and later rector of the Polytechnic Institute of Zurich (1887–1891)."
tagline: "Swiss engineer (1847-1906)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Karl_Wilhelm_Ritter_ETH-Bib_PI_55-BO-0026.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Switzerland"
  isoCode: "CH"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1847-04-14"
deathDate: "1906-10-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.81
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.937653333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wilhelm Ritter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "كارل ويلهلم ريتر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "كارل ويلهلم ريتر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Ritter_(Bauingenieur)"
    title: "Wilhelm Ritter (Bauingenieur)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Wilhelm_Ritter"
    title: "Karl Wilhelm Ritter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Wilhelm_Ritter"
    title: "Karl Wilhelm Ritter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Ritter"
    title: "Wilhelm Ritter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Ritter"
    title: "Wilhelm Ritter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Ritter"
    title: "Wilhelm Ritter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BB_%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BC"
    title: "Риттер, Карл Вильгельм"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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