# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joannes-de-laet
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:29:29.538Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joannes-de-laet"
name: "Joannes de Laet"
slug: "joannes-de-laet"
description: "Joannes or Johannes De Laet was a Dutch geographer and director of the Dutch West India Company. Philip Burden called his History of the New World, \"...arguably the finest description of the Americas published in the seventeenth century\" and \"...one of the foundation maps of Canada\". De Laet was the first to print maps with the names Manhattan, New Amsterdam and Massachusetts."
tagline: "Dutch geographer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Portret_van_Johannes_de_Laet_op_zestig_jarige_leeftijd_Ioannes_de_Laet_Antwerpianus_Anno_Aetatis_LX._CICICCXLII_(titel_op_object)%2C_RP-P-1898-A-20727.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Netherlands"
  isoCode: "NL"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1581"
deathDate: "1649-12-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.23
  momentum:             2.285276073619632
  historical:           10.76216933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D8%AF_%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%AA"
    title: "چوانيس د لايت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Johannes de Laet"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_de_Laet"
    title: "Johannes de Laet"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%93%CE%B9%CE%BF%CE%AC%CE%BD%CE%B5%CF%82_%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%B5_%CE%9B%CE%AC%CE%B5%CF%84"
    title: "Γιοάνες ντε Λάετ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joannes_de_Laet"
    title: "Joannes de Laet"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_de_Laet"
    title: "Johannes de Laet"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joannes_de_Laet"
    title: "Joannes de Laet"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_de_Laet"
    title: "Johannes de Laet"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%99%D7%95%D7%94%D7%A0%D7%A1_%D7%93%D7%94_%D7%9C%D7%90%D7%98"
    title: "יוהנס דה לאט"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ioannes_de_Laet"
    title: "Ioannes de Laet"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_de_Laet"
    title: "Johannes de Laet"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo%C3%A3o_de_Laet"
    title: "João de Laet"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3083977"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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