# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/juan-bautista-munoz
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:22:59.907Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/juan-bautista-munoz"
name: "Juan Bautista Muñoz"
slug: "juan-bautista-munoz"
description: "Juan Bautista Muñoz was an 18th-century Spanish philosopher and historian. He wrote a major history of Spain and Spanish America, using Spanish archival resources, and was the driving force behind the creation of the Archive of the Indies. That brought into a single repository all the documents pertaining to the administration of Spanish overseas possessions."
tagline: "Spanish philosopher and historian"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Juan_Bautista_Mu%C3%B1oz.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Spain"
  isoCode: "ES"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1745-06-12"
deathDate: "1799-07-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.33
  momentum:             2.439024390243902
  historical:           6.140677333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Juan Bautista Muñoz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "حزقيال باوتيستا مونيوث"
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    title: "حزقيال باوتيستا مونيوث"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Baptista_Mu%C3%B1oz_i_Ferrandis"
    title: "Joan Baptista Muñoz i Ferrandis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Bautista_Mu%C3%B1oz"
    title: "Juan Bautista Muñoz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Bautista_Mu%C3%B1oz"
    title: "Juan Bautista Muñoz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lfn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Bautista_Mu%C3%B1%C3%B3z"
    title: "Juan Bautista Muñóz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6298995"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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