# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/francois-valentijn
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:50:45.195Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/francois-valentijn"
name: "François Valentijn"
slug: "francois-valentijn"
description: "François Valentyn or Valentijn was a Dutch Calvinist minister, naturalist and author whose Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën describes the history of the Dutch East India Company while also making notes on geography, ethnography, and natural history; half is about the Moluccas. The work is characterised by vanity, randomness, imbalance and the lack of systematics. Valentyn even used sources that he considered unreliable and some of his descriptions were considered far-fetched."
tagline: "Dutch preacher, missionary, and historian (1666–1727)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Valentijn-Fran%C3%A7ois-1666-172.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1666-04-17"
deathDate: "1727-08-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.22
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.675162666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Valentyn"
    title: "François Valentyn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%A7_%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "فرانسوا فالنتين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Valentijn"
    title: "François Valentijn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Valentijn"
    title: "François Valentijn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Valentijn"
    title: "François Valentijn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Valentijn"
    title: "François Valentijn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q980045"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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