# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-of-leiden
# Generated: 2026-08-15T22:40:40.258Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-of-leiden"
name: "John of Leiden"
slug: "john-of-leiden"
description: "John of Leiden was a Dutch Anabaptist leader. In 1533 he moved to Münster, capital of the Prince-Bishopric of Münster, where he became an influential prophet, turned the city into a millenarian Anabaptist theocracy, and proclaimed himself King of New Jerusalem in September 1534. The insurrection was suppressed in June 1535 after Prince-Bishop Franz von Waldeck besieged the city and captured John. John was tortured to death in the city's central marketplace on 22 January 1536, along with Bernhard Knipperdolling and Bernhard Krechting."
tagline: "Anabaptist leader, King of Munster (1509-1536)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jan_van_Leiden_by_Aldegrever.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "TV Personality"
  slug: "tv-personality"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1509-02-02"
deathDate: "1536-01-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           53.43
  momentum:             0.5555555555555556
  historical:           21.028636
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Jan van Leiden"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump