# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dirk-martens
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:24:10.451Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dirk-martens"
name: "Dirk Martens"
slug: "dirk-martens"
description: "Dirk Martens was a printer and editor in the County of Flanders. He published over fifty books by Erasmus and the very first edition of Thomas More's Utopia. He was the first to print Greek and Hebrew characters in the Netherlands. In 1856 a statue of Martens was erected on the main square of the town of his birth, Aalst."
tagline: "Flemish printer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Aalst_Dirk_Martens.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1446"
deathDate: "1534-05-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.02
  momentum:             15
  historical:           10.48279466666667
  currentAttention:     13.56
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Дірк Мартенс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%83_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%86%D8%B2"
    title: "ديرك مارتنز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%BA_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%81"
    title: "Дирк Мартенс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirk_Martens_(Buchdrucker)"
    title: "Dirk Martens (Buchdrucker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirk_Martens"
    title: "Dirk Martens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirk_Martens"
    title: "Dirk Martens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirk_Martens_(imprimeur)"
    title: "Dirk Martens (imprimeur)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirk_Martens"
    title: "Dirk Martens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodoricus_Martinus"
    title: "Theodoricus Martinus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirk_Martens_(drukker)"
    title: "Dirk Martens (drukker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirk_Martens"
    title: "Dirk Martens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%81%2C_%D0%94%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%BA_(%D0%BA%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C)"
    title: "Мартенс, Дирк (книгоиздатель)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q240649"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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