# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/johannes-p-m-van-der-ploeg
# Generated: 2026-08-15T11:45:54.847Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/johannes-p-m-van-der-ploeg"
name: "Johannes P. M. van der Ploeg"
slug: "johannes-p-m-van-der-ploeg"
description: "Johannes Petrus Maria \"Jan\" van der Ploeg was a Dutch Dominican specialist in Hebrew, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and Syriac manuscript research. He was Professor of Old Testament and Semitic studies at the Catholic University of Nijmegen from 1951 to 1979, after which time he spent most of his time in Kerala. He was raised to the dignity of chorbishop in the Syriac Catholic Church in 1963."
tagline: "Dutch linguist (1909–2004)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1909-07-04"
deathDate: "2004-08-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.8
  momentum:             15.10309278350515
  historical:           5.470194666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_P._M._van_der_Ploeg"
    title: "Johannes P. M. van der Ploeg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%88%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3_%D9%BE%D9%89._%D8%A7%D9%85._%DA%A4%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D9%BE%D9%84%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%AC"
    title: "چوهانس پى. ام. ڤان دير پلويج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_van_der_Ploeg"
    title: "Johannes van der Ploeg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_P._M._van_der_Ploeg"
    title: "Johannes P. M. van der Ploeg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_van_der_Ploeg"
    title: "Johannes van der Ploeg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_van_der_Ploeg_(priester)"
    title: "Jan van der Ploeg (priester)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1433445"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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