# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jan-jesenius
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:37:04.005Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jan-jesenius"
name: "Jan Jesenius"
slug: "jan-jesenius"
description: "Jan Jesenius, also written as Jessenius, was a Bohemian physician, anatomist, politician and philosopher. He was active in Prague, where he gained fame after he conducted a public dissection of a human body for scientific purposes. He was publicly executed following the Battle of White Mountain."
tagline: "Bohemian philosopher, doctor, politician and science writer (1566-1621)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jan_Jesenius.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1566-12-06"
deathDate: "1621-06-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             5.204931849925347
  historical:           15.16209733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump