# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/melchior-goldast
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:53:41.628Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/melchior-goldast"
name: "Melchior Goldast"
slug: "melchior-goldast"
description: "Melchior Goldast von Haiminsfeld (Goldastus) was a Swiss jurist and an industrious though uncritical collector of documents relating to the medieval history and constitution of Germany. He was a Calvinist writer of note."
tagline: "Swiss historian (1578-1635)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Switzerland"
  isoCode: "CH"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1578-01-06"
deathDate: "1635-08-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.73
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.338013333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melchior_Goldast"
    title: "Melchior Goldast"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://als.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melchior_Goldast"
    title: "Melchior Goldast"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B1_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%84%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA"
    title: "ملكيور جولداست"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melchior_Goldast"
    title: "Melchior Goldast"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melchior_Goldast"
    title: "Melchior Goldast"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melchior_Goldast"
    title: "Melchior Goldast"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%85%D0%B8%D0%BE%D1%80"
    title: "Гольдаст, Мельхиор"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q119611"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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