# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/juan-de-velasco
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:30:10.221Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/juan-de-velasco"
name: "Juan de Velasco"
slug: "juan-de-velasco"
description: "Juan de Velasco y Pérez Petroche (1727–1792) was an 18th-century Jesuit priest, historian, and professor of philosophy and theology from the Royal Audience of Quito. He was born in Riobamba to Juan de Velasco y López de Moncayo and to María Pérez Petroche. Among the universities where he taught was the Universidad de San Marcos in Lima in the Viceroyalty of Peru. He is best known for his history book Historia del Reino de Quito, although he also wrote books in fields other than history, such as physics textbooks and poetry anthologies."
tagline: "Ecuadorian Jesuit priest, historian, and professor (1727–1792)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Juandevelasco-pintura.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Spain"
  isoCode: "ES"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1727-01-06"
deathDate: "1792-06-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.63
  momentum:             2.912621359223301
  historical:           7.415048000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%2C_%D0%A5%D1%83%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%B4%D0%B5"
    title: "Веласко, Хуан де"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AE%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%AF%D9%8A_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%83%D9%88"
    title: "خوان دي بيلاسكو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AE%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%AF%D9%89_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%83%D9%88"
    title: "خوان دى بيلاسكو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_de_Velasco"
    title: "Juan de Velasco"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_de_Velasco"
    title: "Juan de Velasco"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_de_Velasco"
    title: "Juan de Velasco"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_de_Velasco"
    title: "Juan de Velasco"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_de_Velasco"
    title: "Juan de Velasco"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q447560"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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