# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gerrit-van-wuysthoff
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:04:16.303Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gerrit-van-wuysthoff"
name: "Gerrit van Wuysthoff"
slug: "gerrit-van-wuysthoff"
description: "Gerrit van Wuysthoff was a Dutch merchant and served the Dutch East India Company. According to sources, he was the first European to visit what is now Laos, one year before Jesuit missionary Giovanni Maria Leria."
tagline: "Dutch merchant"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Netherlands"
  isoCode: "NL"
category:
  name: "Historical Figures"
  slug: "historical-figures"
profileType:
  name: "Historical Figure"
  slug: "historical-figure"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2798645"
birthDate: "1700"
deathDate: "1700"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.3
  momentum:             0.9722222222222223
  historical:           5.669510666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrit_van_Wuysthoff"
    title: "Gerrit van Wuysthoff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrit_van_Wuysthoff"
    title: "Gerrit van Wuysthoff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrit_van_Wuysthoff"
    title: "Gerrit van Wuysthoff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrit_van_Wuysthoff"
    title: "Gerrit van Wuysthoff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://km.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%9E%87%E1%9F%81%E1%9E%9A%E1%9E%B7%E1%9E%8F%E1%9E%9C%E1%9F%89%E1%9E%B6%E1%9E%93%E1%9F%8B%E1%9E%9C%E1%9E%BD%E1%9E%99%E1%9E%9F%E1%9F%8A%E1%9F%92%E1%9E%90%E1%9E%BE"
    title: "ជេរិតវ៉ាន់វួយស៊្ថើ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrit_van_Wuysthoff"
    title: "Gerrit van Wuysthoff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1514826"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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