# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/francois-sainte-de-wollant
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:05:43.817Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/francois-sainte-de-wollant"
name: "François Sainte de Wollant"
slug: "francois-sainte-de-wollant"
description: "François-Paul Sainte de Wollant was a Flemish engineer. He is best known for a number of fortifications in Imperial Russia which were built under his supervision, such as a now-lost 1794 battery on the site of the later Konstantin Battery in Sevastopol. In Tiraspol, Transnistria, a park is named after him."
tagline: "Flemish engineer (1752–1818)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Devolant_Franz_(1752-1818).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1752-09-20"
deathDate: "1818-11-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.39
  momentum:             0.7100840336134453
  historical:           7.421564
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%86_%D0%B4%D0%B5_%D0%92%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD"
    title: "Франц де Воллан"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Sainte_de_Wollant"
    title: "François Sainte de Wollant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Sainte_de_Wollant"
    title: "François Sainte de Wollant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frans_de_Wollant"
    title: "Frans de Wollant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_de_Vol%C3%A1n"
    title: "Franz de Volán"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Sainte_de_Wollant"
    title: "François Sainte de Wollant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frans_de_Wollant"
    title: "Frans de Wollant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD%2C_%D0%A4%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%86_%D0%9F%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87_%D0%B4%D0%B5"
    title: "Воллан, Франц Павлович де"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3085794"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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