# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wilhelm-sievers
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:55:34.097Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wilhelm-sievers"
name: "Wilhelm Sievers"
slug: "wilhelm-sievers"
description: "Friedrich Wilhelm Sievers was a German geologist and geographer. He served as a professor of geography at the University of Giessen. His fieldwork focused on South America, and his Allgemeine Länderkunde was a standard work on world geography for several decades."
tagline: "German geologist (1860-1921)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/1886_Wilhelm_Sievers_i_Colombia.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "DE"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
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birthDate: "1860-12-03"
deathDate: "1921-06-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Wilhelm Sievers (Geograph)"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Sievers"
    title: "Wilhelm Sievers"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Sievers"
    title: "Wilhelm Sievers"
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  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Sievers"
    title: "Wilhelm Sievers"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump