# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hendrik-van-veldeke
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:40:42.901Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hendrik-van-veldeke"
name: "Hendrik van Veldeke"
slug: "hendrik-van-veldeke"
description: "Heinrich von Veldeke is the first writer in the Low Countries known by name who wrote in a European language other than Latin. He was born in Veldeke, which was a hamlet in what is now Spalbeek, part of the municipality of Hasselt in Belgian Limburg. The \"Vel(de)kermolen\", a water mill on the Demer River, is the only remainder of the hamlet. In Limburg, he is celebrated as a writer of Old Limburgish."
tagline: "Medieval Dutch writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Codex_Manesse_Heinrich_von_Veldeke.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
deathDate: "1184"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.406105457909343
  historical:           20.444388
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump