# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jacobus-capitein
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:01:52.646Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jacobus-capitein"
name: "Jacobus Capitein"
slug: "jacobus-capitein"
description: "Jacobus Elisa Johannes Capitein was a Dutch writer, Calvinist clergyman and missionary best known for being the first individual of African descent to be ordained as a minister in an established Protestant church. Born in Western Africa, Capitein was taken to the Dutch Republic at a young age, where he studied theology and wrote on Christianity and slavery before returning to West Africa and eventually dying in debt."
tagline: "Dutch missionary"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Capitein1742.jpeg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "TV Personality"
  slug: "tv-personality"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1717-06-22"
deathDate: "1747-02-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.8
  momentum:             3.309523809523809
  historical:           7.420124
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobus_Capitein"
    title: "Jacobus Capitein"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobus_Capitein"
    title: "Jacobus Capitein"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobus_Capitein"
    title: "Jacobus Capitein"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobus_Capitein"
    title: "Jacobus Capitein"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DB%8C%D8%A7%DA%A9%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B3_%DA%A9%D8%A7%D9%BE%D8%AA%DB%8C%D9%86"
    title: "یاکوبوس کاپتین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobus_Capitein"
    title: "Jacobus Capitein"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakobus_Kapitein"
    title: "Jakobus Kapitein"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobus_Capitein"
    title: "Jacobus Capitein"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2465197"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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