# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bart-huges
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:28:28.585Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bart-huges"
name: "Bart Huges"
slug: "bart-huges"
description: "Hugo Bart Huges was a Dutch librarian and proponent of trepanation. He attended medical school at the University of Amsterdam, but was refused a degree due to his advocacy of marijuana use. In 1964 he published \"The Mechanism of Brainbloodvolume ('BBV')\", a scroll in which he proposed that trepanation could be used to enhance brain functionality by balancing the proportion of blood and cerebral spinal fluid. Huges believed that, when mankind began to walk upright, our brains drained of blood and that trepanation allowed the blood to better flow in and out of the brain, causing a permanent \"high\". Using a foot-operated electric dentist drill, Huges drilled a hole in his skull on 6 January 1965. He also published \"Trepanation: A Cure for Psychosis\", in which he expanded upon his theory, and an autobiography, The Book With The Hole, in 1972."
tagline: "Dutch librarian (1934–2004)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bart_Huges_(1965).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Netherlands"
  isoCode: "NL"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1934-04-23"
deathDate: "2004-08-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.17
  momentum:             0.8656174334140436
  historical:           5.795906666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart_Huges"
    title: "Bart Huges"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart_Huges"
    title: "Bart Huges"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AA_%D9%87%DB%8C%DA%AF%D8%B2"
    title: "بارت هیگز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D1%8E%D0%B3%D0%B5%D1%81%2C_%D0%91%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82"
    title: "Хюгес, Барт"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart_Huges"
    title: "Bart Huges"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart_Huges"
    title: "Bart Huges"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2136673"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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