# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/johan-nieuhof
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:23:27.994Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/johan-nieuhof"
name: "Johan Nieuhof"
slug: "johan-nieuhof"
description: "Johan Nieuhof was a Dutch traveler who wrote about his journeys to Brazil, China and India. The most famous of these was a trip of 2,400 kilometers (1,500 mi) from Canton to Peking in 1655–1657, which enabled him to become an authoritative Western writer on China. He wrote An Embassy from the East-India Company about the journey."
tagline: "Dutch explorer, writer, sinologist (1618-1672)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nieuhof_Joan.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Netherlands"
  isoCode: "NL"
category:
  name: "Historical Figures"
  slug: "historical-figures"
profileType:
  name: "Historical Figure"
  slug: "historical-figure"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2798645"
birthDate: "1618-07-22"
deathDate: "1672-10-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.55
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.96101733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "约翰·纽霍夫"
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    title: "چوهان نيوهوف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://avk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Nieuhof"
    title: "Jan Nieuhof"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Nieuhof"
    title: "Joan Nieuhof"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan_Nieuhof"
    title: "Johan Nieuhof"
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  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan_Nieuhof"
    title: "Johan Nieuhof"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Nieuhof"
    title: "Jan Nieuhof"
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  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Nieuhof"
    title: "Joan Nieuhof"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan_Nieuhof"
    title: "Johan Nieuhof"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Nieuhof"
    title: "Joan Nieuhof"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan_Nieuhof"
    title: "Johan Nieuhof"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan_Nieuhof"
    title: "Johan Nieuhof"
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  - url: "https://szy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ye-han.niw_how-bu"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump