# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/badea-cartan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:54:31.889Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/badea-cartan"
name: "Badea Cârțan"
slug: "badea-cartan"
description: "Badea Cârțan was a self-taught ethnic Romanian shepherd who fought for the independence of the Romanians of Transylvania, distributing Romanian-language books that he secretly brought from Romania to their villages. In all he smuggled some 200,000 books for pupils, priests, teachers and peasants; he used several routes to pass through the Făgăraş Mountains."
tagline: "Romanian hero (1849-1911)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Badea_Cartan.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1849-01-19"
deathDate: "1911-08-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.7
  momentum:             6.842105263157895
  historical:           5.478114666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badea_C%C3%A2r%C8%9Ban"
    title: "Badea Cârțan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badea_C%C3%A2r%C8%9Ban"
    title: "Badea Cârțan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badea_C%C3%A2r%C8%9Ban"
    title: "Badea Cârțan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%8B%D1%80%D1%86%D0%B0%D0%BD%2C_%D0%93%D0%B5%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B5"
    title: "Кырцан, Георге"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badea_C%C3%A2r%C5%A3an"
    title: "Badea Cârţan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badea_C%C3%A2r%C8%9Ban"
    title: "Badea Cârțan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q445032"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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