# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joep-leerssen
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:26:50.425Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joep-leerssen"
name: "Joep Leerssen"
slug: "joep-leerssen"
description: "Joseph Theodoor \"Joep\" Leerssen is a Dutch comparatist and cultural historian. He is Emeritus Professor of Modern European Literature at the University of Amsterdam, and Emeritus Professor at Maastricht University with a research brief on \"Limburg and Europe\". He was awarded the Spinozapremie in 2008 and the Madame de Staël Prize in 2020."
tagline: "Dutch comparatist and cultural historian"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joep_Leerssen.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1955-06-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.4
  momentum:             15
  historical:           4.608568
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "جويب ليرسن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Joep Leerssen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joep_Leerssen"
    title: "Joep Leerssen"
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  - url: "https://li.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joep_Leerssen"
    title: "Joep Leerssen"
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  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joep_Leerssen"
    title: "Joep Leerssen"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump