# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/johann-leonard-hoffmann
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:09:48.103Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/johann-leonard-hoffmann"
name: "Johann Leonard Hoffmann"
slug: "johann-leonard-hoffmann"
description: "Johann Leonard Hoffmann (1710–1782) was a Maastricht army surgeon and amateur geologist who collected fossils from the local Mount Saint Peter. He is known for fossils named after him, and was one of the three people contacted on the discovery of the Mosasaurus in 1766, and especially the second one in the 1770s known as \"le grand animal\", that was later taken to Paris by the French Revolutionary Army in 1794."
tagline: "18th-century fossil collector from the Netherlands"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1710"
deathDate: "1782"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.75
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.470590666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Johann Leonard Hoffmann"
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    title: "يوهان ليونارد هوفمان"
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    title: "يوهان ليونارد هوفمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Leonard_Hoffmann"
    title: "Johann Leonard Hoffmann"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Leonard_Hoffmann"
    title: "Johann Leonard Hoffmann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Leonard_Hoffmann"
    title: "Johann Leonard Hoffmann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6216083"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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