# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jan-jacob-schultens
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:36:29.205Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jan-jacob-schultens"
name: "Jan Jacob Schultens"
slug: "jan-jacob-schultens"
description: "Jan Jacob Schultens was a Dutch orientalist. He was the son of philologist Albert Schultens. In 1742 he obtained his doctorate in theology at Leiden, later serving as a professor of Oriental languages at Herborn (1744–1749), and afterwards succeeded to his father's chair at Leiden. His son was the Dutch linguist Henry Albert Schultens."
tagline: "Dutch linguist (1716-1778)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jan-Jacob-Schultens.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "NL"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1716-09-19"
deathDate: "1778-11-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  historical:           7.001584
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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    title: "جان جاك شولتنز"
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    title: "Jan Jacob Schultens"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Jacob_Schultens"
    title: "Jan Jacob Schultens"
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    title: "Jan Jacob Schultens"
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    title: "Схюлтенс, Ян Якоб"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-country-fill