# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/louis-dorus
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:31:02.426Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/louis-dorus"
name: "Louis Dorus"
slug: "louis-dorus"
description: "Louis Dorus was a 19th-century French classical flautist. Vincent-Joseph van Steenkiste, his real name, was instrumental in the adoption of the modern concert flute. He is the younger brother of Julie Dorus-Gras, the father of the singer and pianist Juliette Vansteenkiste called Dorus, known after her marriage as Rabaud-Dorus, and Henri Rabaud's grandfather."
tagline: "French university teacher and flutist (1812-1896)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Louis_Dorus_1864.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1812-03-01"
deathDate: "1896-06-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.32
  momentum:             4
  historical:           7.871202666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/1c6a3d71-913d-40c2-a93b-5fea342b1d42"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "لويس دوروس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Dorus"
    title: "Louis Dorus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Dorus"
    title: "Louis Dorus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Dorus"
    title: "Louis Dorus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Dorus"
    title: "Louis Dorus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Dorus"
    title: "Louis Dorus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Dorus"
    title: "Louis Dorus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%8E%D1%81%2C_%D0%9B%D1%83%D0%B8"
    title: "Дорюс, Луи"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q743998"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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