# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/johann-veldener
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:48:35.463Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/johann-veldener"
name: "Johann Veldener"
slug: "johann-veldener"
description: "Johann Veldener, also known as Jan Veldener or Johan Veldenaer; was an early printer in Flanders. He worked as a punchcutter and printer in Cologne, together with William Caxton, who may have financed his first books. They both left for Flanders in 1472. Evidence indicates that Veldener assisted Caxton in setting up his printing office in Bruges and helped printing his first work there, the 1472-1473 Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye by Raoul Lefèvre. Afterwards, Veldener went to Leuven and set up his printing company there, becoming the second printer in Leuven after John of Westphalia, and the third or fourth in the Netherlands. He entered the Leuven University on 30 July 1473 in the faculty of Medicine."
tagline: "Early printer and typeface designer in Louvain, Utrecht and Culemborg"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Printer%27s_device_Johan_Veldener.jpg/330px-Printer%27s_device_Johan_Veldener.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Designers"
  slug: "designers"
profileType:
  name: "Designer"
  slug: "designer"
birthDate: "1473"
deathDate: "1529"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           34.44
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.802052
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Veldener"
    title: "Johann Veldener"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Veldener"
    title: "Johann Veldener"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Veldener"
    title: "Johann Veldener"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Veldener"
    title: "Johann Veldener"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Veldenaer"
    title: "Johann Veldenaer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6216287"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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