# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jan-palfijn
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:49:25.874Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jan-palfijn"
name: "Jan Palfijn"
slug: "jan-palfijn"
description: "Jan Palfijn was a Flemish surgeon and obstetrician who was a native of Kortrijk in the County of Flanders at the time of his birth part of the Spanish Netherlands. He practiced medicine in Ypres and Paris, and in 1697 moved to Ghent, where he remained for the rest of his career."
tagline: "Flemish surgeon"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Palfijn.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1650-11-28"
deathDate: "1730-04-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.99
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.615084
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Palfijn"
    title: "Jan Palfijn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Palfijn"
    title: "Jan Palfijn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Palfijn"
    title: "Jan Palfijn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Palfijn"
    title: "Jan Palfijn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Palfijn"
    title: "Jan Palfijn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%91%E3%83%AB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%83%B3"
    title: "ジャン・パルファン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Palfijn"
    title: "Jan Palfijn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Palfijn"
    title: "Jan Palfijn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Palfijn"
    title: "Jan Palfijn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vls.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Palfijn"
    title: "Jan Palfijn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1682107"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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