# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/woldemar-kernig
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:19:27.579Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/woldemar-kernig"
name: "Woldemar Kernig"
slug: "woldemar-kernig"
description: "Woldemar Kernig, better known as Vladimir Mikhailovich Kernig, was a Russian internist and neurologist of Baltic German descent whose medical discoveries saved thousands of people with meningitis. He is best known for his pioneering work on diagnostics. Kernig's sign is named after him."
tagline: "Baltic German neurologist (1840–1917)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Woldemar_Kernig_(ca._1910).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1840-06-16"
deathDate: "1917-04-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.31
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.938409333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Kernig"
    title: "Vladimir Kernig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%BA"
    title: "فلاديمير كرنيغ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%AC"
    title: "فلاديمير كرنيج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wladimir_Michailowitsch_Kernig"
    title: "Wladimir Michailowitsch Kernig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woldemar_Kernig"
    title: "Woldemar Kernig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woldemar_Kernig"
    title: "Woldemar Kernig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%84%D8%AF%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1_%DA%A9%D8%B1%D9%86%DB%8C%DA%AF"
    title: "ولدمار کرنیگ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voldem%C4%81rs_Kernigs"
    title: "Voldemārs Kernigs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woldemar_Kernig"
    title: "Woldemar Kernig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B3%2C_%D0%92%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%80_%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Керниг, Владимир Михайлович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q72439"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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