Juliane Koepcke

Juliane Koepcke is the single most awe-inspiring entry I have written about. A serious mammalogist who specializes in bats, she is also the sole survivor of the 1971 LANSA crash, who walked alone through the Peruvian rainforest for over a week to live. What moves me is that she refused to become merely a survival story; she stayed a working scientist and earned Germany's Order of Merit on the strength of her research. The knowledge her zoologist parents gave her literally saved her life. I do not just admire her, I am humbled by her.

Name (English)

Juliane Koepcke

Name (Japanese)

ユリアナ・ケプケ

Reading

ゆりあな・けぷけ

Born

October 10, 1954 (age 71)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Horse

Origin

Lima, Lima Department, Peru

Occupation

zoologist / librarian / writer / biologist / mammalogist

University

Kiel University

Awards & achievements

• 2021 Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliane%20Koepcke
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A6%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A2%E3%83%8A%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B1%E3%83%97%E3%82%B1
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q95273

Tags

• Lima Department
• zoologist
• librarian
• writer

Last updated

2026-06-16

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.