# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/marten-douwes-teenstra
# Generated: 2026-08-15T17:05:07.792Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/marten-douwes-teenstra"
name: "Marten Douwes Teenstra"
slug: "marten-douwes-teenstra"
description: "Marten Douwes Teenstra was a Dutch writer and traveller in the southern parts of the African continent and the Dutch East Indies. The account of his stay at the Cape from 12 March to 7 July 1825, \"De vruchten mijner werkzaamheden\", was a thorough description of his trip, rich in interesting detail of the personalities and places he came across, and thoughtful commentary on the social, political and economic life of the Cape colony."
tagline: "Dutch writer and traveller (1795–1864)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Marten_Douwes_Teenstra.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Netherlands"
  isoCode: "NL"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1795-09-17"
deathDate: "1864-10-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.8
  momentum:             10.90909090909091
  historical:           4.602304
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Marten Douwes Teenstra"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marten_Douwes_Teenstra"
    title: "Marten Douwes Teenstra"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marten_Douwes_Teenstra"
    title: "Marten Douwes Teenstra"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marten_Douwes_Teenstra"
    title: "Marten Douwes Teenstra"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marten_Douwes_Teenstra"
    title: "Marten Douwes Teenstra"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1923488"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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