# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/fernao-lopes-de-castanheda
# Generated: 2026-08-15T04:44:51.866Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/fernao-lopes-de-castanheda"
name: "Fernão Lopes de Castanheda"
slug: "fernao-lopes-de-castanheda"
description: "Fernão Lopes de Castanheda was a Portuguese historian in the early Renaissance.\nHis \"History of the discovery and conquest of India\", full of geographic and ethnographic objective information, was widely translated throughout Europe."
tagline: "Portuguese historian"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Pra%C3%A7a_Luis_Camoes%2C_Chiado_(9304558925)_(cropped%2C_Castanheda).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1500"
deathDate: "1559-03-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Каштаньеда, Фернан Лопеш де"
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    title: "فيرناو لوبيز دى كاستانهيدا"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump