# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nicholas-mercator
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:21:55.164Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nicholas-mercator"
name: "Nicholas Mercator"
slug: "nicholas-mercator"
description: "Nicholas (Nikolaus) Mercator, also known by his German name Kauffmann, was a 17th-century mathematician."
tagline: "German mathematician (c.1620 – 1687)"
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birthDate: "1620"
deathDate: "1687-01-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump