# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/francois-nau
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:52:00.129Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/francois-nau"
name: "François Nau"
slug: "francois-nau"
description: "François Nau was a French Catholic priest, mathematician, Syriacist, and specialist in oriental languages. He published a great number of eastern Christian texts and translations for the first and often only time."
tagline: "French priest, mathematician and orientalist (1864-1931)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Fran%C3%A7ois_Nau.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1864-05-13"
deathDate: "1931-09-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.47
  momentum:             5.454545454545454
  historical:           3.936753333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%A7_%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%88"
    title: "فرانسوا ناو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Nau"
    title: "François Nau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Nau"
    title: "François Nau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Nau"
    title: "François Nau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1451142"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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