# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/cristovao-da-costa
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:51:25.757Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/cristovao-da-costa"
name: "Cristóvão da Costa"
slug: "cristovao-da-costa"
description: "Cristóvão da Costa or Cristóbal Acosta and Latinized as Christophorus Acosta Africanus was a Portuguese doctor and natural historian. He is considered a pioneer in the study of plants from Asia, especially their use in pharmacology. Together with the apothecary Tomé Pires and the physician Garcia de Orta he was one of the pioneers of Indo-Portuguese medicine. He published a book on the medicinal plants of the orient titled Tractado de las drogas y medicinas de la Indias Orientales in 1578."
tagline: "Portuguese doctor and natural historian (1515-1594)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Portret_van_Christophorus_A_Costa_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Spain"
  isoCode: "ES"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1515"
deathDate: "1594"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           13.13866133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "კრისტობალ აკოსტა"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump