# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jacobus-bontius
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:49:52.290Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jacobus-bontius"
name: "Jacobus Bontius"
slug: "jacobus-bontius"
description: "Jacobus Bontius was a Dutch physician and a pioneer of tropical medicine. He is known for the four-volume work De medicina Indorum. His 1631 work \"Historiae naturalis et medicae Indiae orientalis\" introduced the Malay and Indonesian word \"Orang Hutan\" into Western languages."
tagline: "Dutch physician"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Bontius%2C_J._De_Medicina_Indorum_IV_Wellcome_L0025863.jpg/330px-Bontius%2C_J._De_Medicina_Indorum_IV_Wellcome_L0025863.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Netherlands"
  isoCode: "NL"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1592"
deathDate: "1631-11-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.38
  momentum:             11.35135135135135
  historical:           9.808532
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Jacobus Bontius"
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  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B3_%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B3"
    title: "جاكوبوس بونتيوس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_de_Bondt"
    title: "Jacob de Bondt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobus_Bontius"
    title: "Jacobus Bontius"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_de_Bondt"
    title: "Jacques de Bondt"
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  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobus_Bontius"
    title: "Jacobus Bontius"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobus_Bontius"
    title: "Jacobus Bontius"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iacobus_Bontius"
    title: "Iacobus Bontius"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_de_Bondt"
    title: "Jacob de Bondt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobus_Bontius"
    title: "Jacobus Bontius"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_de_Bondt"
    title: "Jacob de Bondt"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump