# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ibn-masawayh
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:19:14.510Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ibn-masawayh"
name: "Ibn Masawayh"
slug: "ibn-masawayh"
description: "Yuhanna ibn Masawaih, , also written Ibn Masawaih, Masawaiyh, and in Latin Janus Damascenus, or Mesue, Masuya, Mesue Major, Msuya, and Mesuë the Elder was a Persian physician, trained by Jabril ibn Bukhtishu, who was a member of the Church of the East, from the Academy of Gondishapur. According to The Canon of Medicine for Avicenna and 'Uyun al-Anba for the medieval Arab historian ibn Abi Usaybi'a, Masawaiyh's father was from Khuzestan and his mother was a Slav."
tagline: "Assyrian physician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mesue._Watercolour._Wellcome_V0006562.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "777"
deathDate: "857"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.34
  momentum:             14.10714285714286
  historical:           15.16562533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "ابن ماسویہ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_Masawaih"
    title: "Ibn Masawaih"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%AD%D9%86%D8%A7_%D8%A8%D9%86_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%87"
    title: "يوحنا بن ماسويه"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%AD%D9%86%D8%A7_%D8%A8%D9%86_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%87"
    title: "يوحنا بن ماسويه"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Mesu%C3%A9_(el_Vell)"
    title: "Joan Mesué (el Vell)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuhanna_ibn_Masawaih"
    title: "Yuhanna ibn Masawaih"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masawaiyh"
    title: "Masawaiyh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johano_Mesu%C3%A9_la_Maljuna"
    title: "Johano Mesué la Maljuna"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Mesu%C3%A9"
    title: "Juan Mesué"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%86_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%87"
    title: "ابن ماسویه"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuhanna_ibn_Masawaih"
    title: "Yuhanna ibn Masawaih"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibnu_Masawayh"
    title: "Ibnu Masawayh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuhanna_ibn_Masawayh"
    title: "Yuhanna ibn Masawayh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ioannes_Mesue"
    title: "Ioannes Mesue"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%86_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%88%DB%8C%DB%81"
    title: "ابن ماسویہ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masavajh"
    title: "Masavajh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://skr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%86%D9%90_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%88%DB%8C%DB%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AE%D9%88%D8%B2%DB%8C"
    title: "ابنِ ماسویہ الخوزی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ибни Мосавайҳ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuhann%C3%A2_bin_M%C3%A2seveyh"
    title: "Yuhannâ bin Mâseveyh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1291511"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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