# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/klaas-van-berkel
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:51:55.709Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/klaas-van-berkel"
name: "Klaas van Berkel"
slug: "klaas-van-berkel"
description: "Klaas van Berkel is a Dutch historian, historian of science, and professor of Modern History at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, known from his work on the history of science in the Netherlands, particularly the work of Isaac Beeckman, Simon Stevin and Eduard Jan Dijksterhuis."
tagline: "Dutch historian of science"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1953-07-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           35.33
  momentum:             15
  historical:           4.401548
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B3_%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "كلاس فان بيركيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaas_van_Berkel"
    title: "Klaas van Berkel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaas_van_Berkel"
    title: "Klaas van Berkel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaas_van_Berkel"
    title: "Klaas van Berkel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaas_van_Berkel"
    title: "Klaas van Berkel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5214018"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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