# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bartomeu-melia
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:59:59.389Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bartomeu-melia"
name: "Bartomeu Melià"
slug: "bartomeu-melia"
description: "Bartomeu Melià Lliteres was a Spanish Jesuit, linguist and anthropologist, with Paraguayan citizenship since 2011. He specialized in the study of the Guaraní people and their language. For publicly accusing the Paraguayan government of committing a genocide against its indigenous peoples, he was exiled from the country from 1976 to 1989."
tagline: "Paraguayan anthropologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bartomeu_Meli%C3%A1_(2011).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Spain"
  isoCode: "ES"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1932-12-07"
deathDate: "2019-12-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.76
  momentum:             1.261682242990654
  historical:           5.275342666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartomeu_Meli%C3%A0"
    title: "Bartomeu Melià"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartomeu_Meli%C3%A0_i_Lliteres"
    title: "Bartomeu Melià i Lliteres"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartomeu_Meli%C3%A0"
    title: "Bartomeu Melià"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bartomeu_Meli%C3%A0"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://gn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartomeu_Meli%C3%A0"
    title: "Bartomeu Melià"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartomeu_Meli%C3%A0"
    title: "Bartomeu Melià"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8243163"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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