# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michiel-de-vaan
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:30:53.225Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michiel-de-vaan"
name: "Michiel de Vaan"
slug: "michiel-de-vaan"
description: "Michiel Arnoud Cor de Vaan is a Dutch linguist and Indo-Europeanist. He taught comparative Indo-European linguistics, historical linguistics and dialectology at the University of Leiden until 2014, when he moved to the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. De Vaan had been at the University of Leiden since 1991, first as a student and later as a teacher."
tagline: "Dutch linguist"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1973"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.04
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.881498666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "میشل د وان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michiel_de_Vaan"
    title: "Michiel de Vaan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michiel_de_Vaan"
    title: "Michiel de Vaan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michiel_de_Vaan"
    title: "Michiel de Vaan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michiel_de_Vaan"
    title: "Michiel de Vaan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9F%E3%83%92%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A1%E3%83%B3"
    title: "ミヒル・ド・ヴァン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6837393"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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