# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edmond-van-eetvelde
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:22:17.623Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edmond-van-eetvelde"
name: "Edmond van Eetvelde"
slug: "edmond-van-eetvelde"
description: "Edmond van Eetvelde was a Belgian diplomat and first General Administrator of the Department of Foreign Affairs of the Independent State of the Congo.\nHe is also famous for commissioning the Belgian Art Nouveau architect Victor Horta in 1898 to build the Hôtel van Eetvelde, his private residence in Brussels."
tagline: "Belgian diplomat (1852-1925)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Edmond_van_Eetvelde2.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1852-04-21"
deathDate: "1925-12-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.61
  momentum:             15.28962188254224
  historical:           4.8117
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmond_van_Eetvelde"
    title: "Edmond van Eetvelde"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmond_van_Eetvelde"
    title: "Edmond van Eetvelde"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmond_van_Eetvelde"
    title: "Edmond van Eetvelde"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmond_van_Eetvelde"
    title: "Edmond van Eetvelde"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edmond_van_Eetvelde"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1835283"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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