# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jan-van-der-hoeven
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:54:00.125Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jan-van-der-hoeven"
name: "Jan van der Hoeven"
slug: "jan-van-der-hoeven"
description: "Jan van der Hoeven was a Dutch zoologist. His most famous book is Handboek der Dierkunde (1827–1833), translated into German and English. He wrote as readily about crocodiles as about butterflies, lancelets and lemurs. His research on the nautilus resulted in the discovery of a secondary sexual organ of unknown function which was then named after him as Hoeven's organ or Van der Hoeven's organ."
tagline: "Dutch zoologist (1801-1868)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Portret_van_Jan_van_der_Hoeven%2C_hoogleraar_Natuurlijke_Historie_te_Leiden_Icones_236.tiff?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1801-02-09"
deathDate: "1868-03-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.67
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.739237333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "جان فان دير هوفين"
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    title: "Jan van der Hoeven"
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    title: "Jan van der Hoeven"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_van_der_Hoeven"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_van_der_Hoeven_(bioloog)"
    title: "Jan van der Hoeven (bioloog)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_van_der_Hoeven"
    title: "Jan van der Hoeven"
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    title: "Jan van der Hoeven"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump