# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jan-f-esser
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:55:00.635Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jan-f-esser"
name: "Jan F. Esser"
slug: "jan-f-esser"
description: "Johannes Fredericus Samuel Esser was a Dutch plastic surgeon who pioneered innovative methods of reconstructive surgery on soldiers wounded in the First World War. He is thought to have coined the term \"stent\" in 1917 to describe his use of a dental impression compound invented in 1856 by the English dentist Charles Stent (1807–1885) to create a form for facial reconstruction. The term \"stent\" was later extended to mean a device to expand constricted tubes of body tissue."
tagline: "Doctor, chess master, art collector (1877-1946)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/JohannesEsser1902.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1877-10-13"
deathDate: "1946-08-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.15
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.404464
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Esser"
    title: "Johannes Esser"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A5%D9%81._%D8%A5%D8%B3%D8%B1"
    title: "جان إف. إسر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جان اف. اسر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Esser"
    title: "Johannes Esser"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Esser"
    title: "Johannes Esser"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Esser_(Mediziner)"
    title: "Johannes Esser (Mediziner)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_F._Esser"
    title: "Jan F. Esser"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%99%D7%90%D7%9F_%D7%90%D7%A1%D7%A8"
    title: "יאן אסר"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Esser"
    title: "Johannes Esser"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Esser"
    title: "Johannes Esser"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AD%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%99%D0%BE%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%81"
    title: "Эссер, Йоханнес"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q542255"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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