# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/johannes-baptista-montanus
# Generated: 2026-08-15T19:39:39.490Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/johannes-baptista-montanus"
name: "Johannes Baptista Montanus"
slug: "johannes-baptista-montanus"
description: "Johannes Baptista Montanus is the Latinized name of Giovanni Battista Monte, or Gian Battista da Monte, one of the leading Renaissance humanist physicians of Italy. Montanus promoted the revival of Greek medical texts and practice, producing revisions of Galen as well as of Islamic medical texts by Rhazes and Avicenna. He was himself a medical writer and was regarded as a second Galen."
tagline: "Italian physician (1498–1551)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Johannes_Baptista_Montanus.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1498"
deathDate: "1551-05-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.81
  momentum:             0.3723404255319149
  historical:           5.673686666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Battista_Monte"
    title: "Giovanni Battista Monte"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Baptista_Montanus"
    title: "Johannes Baptista Montanus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Baptista_Montanus"
    title: "Johannes Baptista Montanus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Baptista_Montanus"
    title: "Johannes Baptista Montanus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Baptista_Montanus"
    title: "Johannes Baptista Montanus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Battista_Monte"
    title: "Giovanni Battista Monte"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1697209"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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