# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/els-witte
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:54:56.055Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/els-witte"
name: "Els Witte"
slug: "els-witte"
description: "Els, Baroness Witte is a Belgian historian. She was professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and honorary rector of the university. Els Witte was the first female rector of a Belgian university. She was a member of the Coudenberg group, a Belgian federalist think tank."
tagline: "Historian"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Witte2016.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1941-09-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.4
  momentum:             0.75
  historical:           4.806696000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D9%84%D8%B3_%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%AA"
    title: "إلس ويت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3_%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%AA"
    title: "الس ويت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Els_Witte"
    title: "Els Witte"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Els_Witte"
    title: "Els Witte"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Els_Witte"
    title: "Els Witte"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2106548"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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