# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/franciscus-van-den-enden
# Generated: 2026-08-15T16:59:13.148Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/franciscus-van-den-enden"
name: "Franciscus van den Enden"
slug: "franciscus-van-den-enden"
description: "Franciscus van den Enden, in later life also known as 'Affinius' was a Flemish former Jesuit, Neo-Latin poet, physician, art dealer, philosopher, and plotter against Louis XIV of France. Born in Antwerp, where he had a truncated career as a Jesuit and an art dealer, he moved later to the Dutch Republic where he became part of a group of radical thinkers sometimes referred to as the Amsterdam Circle, who challenged prevailing views on politics and religion. He held strong ideas about education, and viewed theater as an important teaching tool. He was a Utopian planning to set up an ideal society in the Dutch colonies in America and a proponent of democracy in the administration of states. He is best known as the Latin teacher of Spinoza (1632–1677), with whom Spinoza boarded for a period. Scholars have examined Van den Enden's philosophical ideas and those of Spinoza to assess whether he influenced his pupil, Spinoza biographer Steven Nadler suggests this is not the case. Spinoza biographer Jonathan I. Israel argues that Van den Enden preceded Spinoza in writing radical philosophical texts with a combination of democratic republicanism, rejection of religious authority, and advocacy for basic equality, building on the influence of Pieter de la Court, but only after Spinoza left Amsterdam. Van den Enden was implicated in a plot against Louis XIV and executed by hanging."
tagline: "Flemish Jesuit, Neo-Latin poet, physician, art dealer, philosopher and teacher of Baruch de Spinoza (1602-1674)"
gender: "male"
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profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1602-02-05"
deathDate: "1674-11-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.05
  momentum:             0.3879310344827586
  historical:           9.83618
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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sources:
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    title: "弗朗西斯库斯·范登恩登"
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    title: "Франсиск ван ден Енден"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franciscus_van_den_Enden"
    title: "Franciscus van den Enden"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franciscus_van_den_Enden"
    title: "Franciscus van den Enden"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franciscus_van_den_Enden"
    title: "Franciscus van den Enden"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franciscus_van_den_Enden"
    title: "Franciscus van den Enden"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franciscus_Van_den_Enden"
    title: "Franciscus Van den Enden"
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  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franciscus_van_den_Enden"
    title: "Franciscus van den Enden"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franciscus_van_der_Enden"
    title: "Franciscus van der Enden"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BA_%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%94%D0%B5%D0%BD_%D0%AD%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BD"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump