# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lucretia-van-merken
# Generated: 2026-08-15T09:03:42.328Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lucretia-van-merken"
name: "Lucretia van Merken"
slug: "lucretia-van-merken"
description: "Lucretia Wilhelmina van Merken was a Dutch poet and playwright. Born in Amsterdam, she began writing occasional poetry and in her early twenties had published her first tragedy. Influenced by the Enlightenment, her tragedies were classicist in style and proved to be popular, being performed all over the country. She wrote an ode in French for George Washington, and sent it to him, and for the revised Dutch version of the Book of Psalms she provided seventeen of the psalms."
tagline: "Dutch poet and stage writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lucretia_Wilhelmina_van_Merken.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1721-08-21"
deathDate: "1789-10-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.17
  momentum:             3.451327433628318
  historical:           5.005472
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucretia_Wilhelmina_van_Merken"
    title: "Lucretia Wilhelmina van Merken"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucretia_Wilhelmina_van_Merken"
    title: "Lucretia Wilhelmina van Merken"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucretia_Wilhelmina_van_Merken"
    title: "Lucretia Wilhelmina van Merken"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucretia_Wilhelmina_van_Merken"
    title: "Lucretia Wilhelmina van Merken"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucretia_Wilhelmina_van_Merken"
    title: "Lucretia Wilhelmina van Merken"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3265974"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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