# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bas-van-bavel
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:18:02.855Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bas-van-bavel"
name: "Bas van Bavel"
slug: "bas-van-bavel"
description: "Balthassar Jozef Paul \"Bas\" van Bavel is a Dutch historian. He has held the chair of Transitions of Economy and Society at Utrecht University since 2011, and has been professor of Economic and Social History since 2007. His research has mostly focused on pre-industrial Northwestern Europe. He was one of the winners of the 2019 Spinoza Prize, the highest award in Dutch science."
tagline: "Dutch historian"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/BasVanBavel.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1964-06-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.42
  momentum:             0.7471264367816093
  historical:           4.806732
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B3_%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%81%D9%84"
    title: "باس فان بافل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bas_van_Bavel"
    title: "Bas van Bavel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bas_van_Bavel"
    title: "Bas van Bavel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%B0%94%EC%8A%A4_%ED%8C%90_%EB%B0%94%EB%B2%8C"
    title: "바스 판 바벌"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bas_van_Bavel"
    title: "Bas van Bavel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22958522"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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