# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-de-smedt
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:35:38.546Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-de-smedt"
name: "Charles De Smedt"
slug: "charles-de-smedt"
description: "Charles De Smedt S.J. was a Belgian Jesuit priest and hagiographer. He was a Bollandist, and is noted for having introduced critical historical methods into Catholic hagiography, so that it became a collection of accounts of the accretion of legends, as well as the compilation of original materials."
tagline: "Jesuit priest, hagiographer (1833-1911)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Portret_van_Charles_De_Smedt_1900_barcode_910000105422.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1833-04-06"
deathDate: "1911-03-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           35.27
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.135493333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_De_Smedt"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%B2_%D8%AF%D9%89_%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%AA"
    title: "تشارلز دى سميدت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_De_Smedt"
    title: "Charles De Smedt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_De_Smedt"
    title: "Charles De Smedt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_De_Smedt"
    title: "Charles De Smedt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_De_Smedt"
    title: "Charles De Smedt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_De_Smedt"
    title: "Charles De Smedt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2958862"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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