# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/frits-van-oostrom
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:24:25.951Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/frits-van-oostrom"
name: "Frits van Oostrom"
slug: "frits-van-oostrom"
description: "Frits van Oostrom is university professor for the Humanities at Utrecht University. In 1999 he was a visiting professor at Harvard for the Erasmus Chair. From September 2004 to June 2005, he was a fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS). He was awarded the Spinozapremie in 1995. In May 2005 he became president of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) for a three-year period. He had been member of the same institution since 1994."
tagline: "Dutch academic (born 1953)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/2023_Fritsvanoostrom.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1953-05-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.25
  momentum:             1.054131054131054
  historical:           5.480634666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.fritsvanoostrom.nl/"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frits_van_Oostrom"
    title: "Frits van Oostrom"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B3_%DA%A4%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%85"
    title: "فريتس ڤان اوستروم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frits_van_Oostrom"
    title: "Frits van Oostrom"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frits_van_Oostrom"
    title: "Frits van Oostrom"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frits_van_Oostrom"
    title: "Frits van Oostrom"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frits_van_Oostrom"
    title: "Frits van Oostrom"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3030806"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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