# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/johann-van-beethoven
# Generated: 2026-09-02T04:21:10.959Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/johann-van-beethoven"
name: "Johann van Beethoven"
slug: "johann-van-beethoven"
description: "Johann van Beethoven was a German musician, teacher, and singer who sang in the chapel of the Archbishop of Cologne, whose court was at Bonn. He is best known as the father of the celebrated composer Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827). Johann became an alcoholic later in his life and was at times an abusive father to Ludwig. At 18, Ludwig had to obtain an order to force Johann to support his family. Johann died soon after Ludwig moved to Vienna to study with Joseph Haydn."
tagline: "Father of Ludwig van Beethoven"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Johann_von_Beethoven.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
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  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1739"
deathDate: "1792-12-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             15
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump