# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/willy-kukenthal
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:54:45.753Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/willy-kukenthal"
name: "Willy Kükenthal"
slug: "willy-kukenthal"
description: "Wilhelm (Willy) Georg Kükenthal was a German zoologist. He was the older brother of botanist and theologian Georg Kükenthal (1864–1955). Kükenthal specialized in the Octocorallia and on marine mammals. He edited, along with Thilo Krumbach, a landmark series of eight volumes in the Handbuch der Zoologie series which extensively reviewed and compiled the state of zoological knowledge of the time."
tagline: "German zoologist and university teacher (1861–1922)"
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gender: "male"
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birthDate: "1861-08-04"
deathDate: "1922-08-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  historical:           9.203564
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  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump