# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/arnold-mercator
# Generated: 2026-09-07T21:20:41.308Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/arnold-mercator"
name: "Arnold Mercator"
slug: "arnold-mercator"
description: "Arnold or Arnoldus Mercator was a Southern Netherlandish cartographer, mathematician and classical philologist. He was the eldest son of cartographer Gerardus Mercator and a brother of Rumold Mercator."
tagline: "German cartographer"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Rathausplatz_und_Umfeld_1571.jpg/330px-Rathausplatz_und_Umfeld_1571.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1537-08-31"
deathDate: "1587-07-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.13
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.009216
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Mercator"
    title: "Arnold Mercator"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Mercator"
    title: "Arnold Mercator"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Mercator"
    title: "Arnold Mercator"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Mercator"
    title: "Arnold Mercator"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%2C_%D0%90%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B4"
    title: "Меркатор, Арнольд"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q695779"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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