# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dimitrios-galanos
# Generated: 2026-08-15T16:28:25.466Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dimitrios-galanos"
name: "Dimitrios Galanos"
slug: "dimitrios-galanos"
description: "Dimitrios Galanos or Demetrios Galanos was the earliest recorded Greek Indologist. His translations of Sanskrit texts into Greek made knowledge of the philosophical and religious ideas of India available to many Europeans."
tagline: "Greek indologist (1760-1830)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dimitrios_Galanos_portrait.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1760"
deathDate: "1833"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           35.73
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.60324
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "ديميتريوس جالانوس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%94%CE%B7%CE%BC%CE%AE%CF%84%CF%81%CE%B9%CE%BF%CF%82_%CE%93%CE%B1%CE%BB%CE%B1%CE%BD%CF%8C%CF%82"
    title: "Δημήτριος Γαλανός"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimitrios_Galanos"
    title: "Dimitrios Galanos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimitrios_Galanos"
    title: "Dimitrios Galanos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%81%2C_%D0%94%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BE%D1%81"
    title: "Галанос, Димитриос"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3565641"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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