# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/laurens-jansz-coster
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:20:12.546Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/laurens-jansz-coster"
name: "Laurens Jansz Coster"
slug: "laurens-jansz-coster"
description: "Laurens Janszoon Coster, or Laurens Jansz Koster, is the purported inventor of a printing press from Haarlem. He allegedly invented printing simultaneously with Johannes Gutenberg and was regarded by some in the Netherlands well into the 20th century as having invented printing first."
tagline: "Dutch purported inventor of printing press (1405-1484)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Laurens_Janszoon_Coster_Erfgoedcentrum_Rozet_300_191_d_2_A-01.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Business Professionals"
  slug: "business-professionals"
profileType:
  name: "Business Professional"
  slug: "business-professional"
birthDate: "1370"
deathDate: "1440"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.97
  momentum:             4.71264367816092
  historical:           10.70867866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurens_Janszoon_Coster"
    title: "Laurens Janszoon Coster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%B3_%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B2%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B1"
    title: "لاورنس يانزون كوستر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurens_Janszoon_Coster"
    title: "Laurens Janszoon Coster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurens_Janszoon_Coster"
    title: "Laurens Janszoon Coster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurens_Janszoon_Coster"
    title: "Laurens Janszoon Coster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurens_Janszoon_Coster"
    title: "Laurens Janszoon Coster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurent_Coster"
    title: "Laurent Coster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurens_Janszoon_Coster"
    title: "Laurens Janszoon Coster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurens_Janszoon_Coster"
    title: "Laurens Janszoon Coster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurens_Janszoon_Coster"
    title: "Laurens Janszoon Coster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurens_Janszoon_Coster"
    title: "Laurens Janszoon Coster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%9B%D0%B0%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%81_%D0%AF%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%B7%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Костер, Лауренс Янсзон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q576201"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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