# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-christoffel-kannemeyer
# Generated: 2026-08-15T14:59:47.124Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-christoffel-kannemeyer"
name: "John Christoffel Kannemeyer"
slug: "john-christoffel-kannemeyer"
description: "John Christoffel Kannemeyer, better known as J. C. Kannemeyer was an authority on Afrikaans literature and a well-known biographer of Afrikaans writers, and published numerous books on the history of Afrikaans literature."
tagline: "South African biographer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1939-03-31"
deathDate: "2011-12-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.11
  momentum:             1.363636363636363
  historical:           5.269366666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Christoffel_Kannemeyer"
    title: "John Christoffel Kannemeyer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.C._Kannemeyer"
    title: "J.C. Kannemeyer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Christoffel_Kannemeyer"
    title: "John Christoffel Kannemeyer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://so.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Christoffel_Kannemeyer"
    title: "John Christoffel Kannemeyer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lfn.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Christoffel_Kannemeyer"
    title: "John Christoffel Kannemeyer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.C._Kannemeyer"
    title: "J.C. Kannemeyer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6226060"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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