# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jac-van-ginneken
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:03:25.993Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jac-van-ginneken"
name: "Jac. van Ginneken"
slug: "jac-van-ginneken"
description: "Jacobus Joannes Antonius van Ginneken was a Dutch linguist and Jesuit, who was a professor at the Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen since its start in 1923. He taught Dutch language, Dutch literature, comparative linguistics of the Indo-European languages, and Sanskrit."
tagline: "Professor, linguist, priest and Jesuit (1877–1945)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jac._van_Ginneken.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1877-04-21"
deathDate: "1945-10-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.91
  momentum:             7.821782178217823
  historical:           5.673146666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jac._van_Ginneken"
    title: "Jac. van Ginneken"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jac._van_Ginneken"
    title: "Jac. van Ginneken"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jac._van_Ginneken"
    title: "Jac. van Ginneken"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobus_van_Ginneken"
    title: "Jacobus van Ginneken"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jac._van_Ginneken"
    title: "Jac. van Ginneken"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%BA%D0%B5%D0%BD%2C_%D0%AF%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B1%D1%83%D1%81_%D0%99%D0%BE%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%81_%D0%90%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%83%D1%81_%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD"
    title: "Гиннекен, Якобус Йоаннес Антониус ван"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2445309"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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