# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lodewijk-elzevir
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:56:56.381Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lodewijk-elzevir"
name: "Lodewijk Elzevir"
slug: "lodewijk-elzevir"
description: "Lodewijk Elzevir, originally Lodewijk or Louis Elsevier or Elzevier, was a printer, born in the city of Leuven. He was the founder of the House of Elzevir, which printed works such as \"Two New Sciences\", written by Galileo, at a time when his work was suppressed for religious reasons. Although the House of Elzevir ceased publishing in 1712, the modern Dutch Elsevier company was founded in 1880 and took its name from the historic Dutch publishing house."
tagline: "Belgian printer (1540-1617)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Observationvm_medicarvm_Nicolaes_Tulp_1641.JPG/330px-Observationvm_medicarvm_Nicolaes_Tulp_1641.JPG"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Netherlands"
  isoCode: "NL"
birthDate: "1540"
deathDate: "1617-02-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.97
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.551297333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AD%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B7%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%80%2C_%D0%9B%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BA"
    title: "Эльзевир, Лодевейк"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lodewijk_Elzevier"
    title: "Lodewijk Elzevier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Elsevier"
    title: "Louis Elsevier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lodewijk_Elzevir"
    title: "Lodewijk Elzevir"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lodewijk_Elsevier"
    title: "Lodewijk Elsevier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lodewijk_Elzevier"
    title: "Lodewijk Elzevier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lodewijk_Elzevir"
    title: "Lodewijk Elzevir"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q358635"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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