# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/diego-duran
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:00:56.137Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/diego-duran"
name: "Diego Durán"
slug: "diego-duran"
description: "Diego Durán was a Dominican friar best known for his authorship of one of the earliest Western books on the history and culture of the Aztecs, The History of the Indies of New Spain, a book that was much criticised in his lifetime for helping the \"heathen\" maintain their culture."
tagline: "Dominican friar (1537-1588)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Fig1_Moctezuma_(C%C3%B3dice_Diego_Dur%C3%A1n).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Spain"
  isoCode: "ES"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1537"
deathDate: "1588"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           13.38042133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Diego Durán"
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    title: "Diego Durán"
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    title: "Diego Durán"
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    title: "Diego Durán"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump