# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nicolaus-germanus
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:32:00.996Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nicolaus-germanus"
name: "Nicolaus Germanus"
slug: "nicolaus-germanus"
description: "Nicolaus Germanus was a German cartographer who modernized Ptolemy's Geography by applying new projections, adding additional maps, and contributing other innovations that were influential in the development of Renaissance cartography."
tagline: "German cartographer (1420–1490)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Cosmographia_Claudii_Ptolomaei_ante_1467_%287455943%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/330px-Cosmographia_Claudii_Ptolomaei_ante_1467_%287455943%29_%28cropped%29.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1420"
deathDate: "1490"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             4.615384615384617
  historical:           6.749857333333335
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "尼古拉·日耳曼努斯"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Donnus Nicolaus Germanus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaus_Germanus"
    title: "Nicolaus Germanus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaus_Germanus"
    title: "Nicolaus Germanus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B9_%D0%93%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%83%D1%81"
    title: "Николай Германус"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolaus_Germanus"
    title: "Nikolaus Germanus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D1%96%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%83%D1%81_%D0%93%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%83%D1%81"
    title: "Ніколаус Германус"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1241997"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump