# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-van-den-gheyn
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:21:45.242Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joseph-van-den-gheyn"
name: "Joseph Van den Gheyn"
slug: "joseph-van-den-gheyn"
description: "Joseph Marie Martin Van den Gheyn was a Belgian Jesuit, Bollandist, and chief conservator of the Royal Library of Belgium."
tagline: "Belgian anthropologist, hagiographer and librarian (1854–1913)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joseph_van_den_Gheyn_(1854-1913).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1854-05-25"
deathDate: "1913-01-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           35.53
  momentum:             4.402173913043478
  historical:           4.801764
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%81_%DA%A4%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "چوزيف ڤان دين جين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Van_den_Gheyn"
    title: "Joseph Van den Gheyn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Van_den_Gheyn"
    title: "Joseph Van den Gheyn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Van_den_Gheyn"
    title: "Joseph Van den Gheyn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Van_den_Gheyn"
    title: "Joseph Van den Gheyn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3185717"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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