# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/franciscus-raphelengius
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:28:39.600Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/franciscus-raphelengius"
name: "Franciscus Raphelengius"
slug: "franciscus-raphelengius"
description: "Frans van Ravelingen Latinized Franciscus Raphelengius, was a Flemish-born scholar, printer and publisher, working in Antwerp and later in Leiden. During the last decade of his life he was professor of Hebrew at Leiden University. He produced an Arabic-Latin dictionary, of about 550 pages, which was published posthumously in 1613 in Leiden. This was the first publication by printing press of a book-length dictionary for the Arabic language in Latin."
tagline: "Flemish orientalist, text editor, printer, professor (1539-1597)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Anonymous_-_Portrait_of_Franciscus_Raphelengius.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1539-02-06"
deathDate: "1597-07-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.46
  momentum:             2.379141104294478
  historical:           10.47357866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franciscus_Raphelengius"
    title: "Franciscus Raphelengius"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%D8%B3%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B3_%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%81%D9%84%D9%86%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B3"
    title: "فرانسسكوس رافلنجيوس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franciscus_Raphelengius"
    title: "Franciscus Raphelengius"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franciscus_Raphelengius_der_%C3%84ltere"
    title: "Franciscus Raphelengius der Ältere"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franciscus_Raphelengius"
    title: "Franciscus Raphelengius"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franciscus_Raphelengius"
    title: "Franciscus Raphelengius"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franciscus_Raphelengius"
    title: "Franciscus Raphelengius"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%DA%A9%D8%B3%DB%8C%D8%B3%DA%A9%D9%88%D8%B3_%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%BE%D9%84%D9%86%DA%AF%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%B3"
    title: "فرانکسیسکوس راپلنگیوس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Ravlenghien"
    title: "François Ravlenghien"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franciscus_Raphelengius"
    title: "Franciscus Raphelengius"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frans_van_Ravenlingen"
    title: "Frans van Ravenlingen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franciscus_Raphelengius"
    title: "Franciscus Raphelengius"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3085667"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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