# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joost-schouten
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:13:58.809Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joost-schouten"
name: "Joost Schouten"
slug: "joost-schouten"
description: "Joost Schouten was a Dutch East Indies Company figure of considerable repute, in demand as an astute administrator, diplomat, courtier and negotiator for this Dutch colonial and mercantile outpost in the South-East Asian archipelago today known as Indonesia. In July 1644, Schouten was found to have engaged in homosexual sex with numerous men. Convicted of sodomy, a capital offence in the seventeenth-century Netherlands, he was burnt at the stake."
tagline: "Dutch merchant and diplomat"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1600"
deathDate: "1644-07-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.64
  momentum:             7.901315789473684
  historical:           6.340461333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B9%82%E0%B8%A2%E0%B8%AA%E0%B8%95%E0%B9%8C_%E0%B8%AA%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%84%E0%B8%B2%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%95%E0%B9%87%E0%B8%99"
    title: "โยสต์ สเคาเต็น"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joost_Schouten"
    title: "Joost Schouten"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joost_Schouten"
    title: "Joost Schouten"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joost_Schouten"
    title: "Joost Schouten"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joost_Schouten"
    title: "Joost Schouten"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joost_Schouten"
    title: "Joost Schouten"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joost_Schouten"
    title: "Joost Schouten"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q515760"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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