# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-frans-van-kerckhoven
# Generated: 2026-08-15T05:54:51.289Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-frans-van-kerckhoven"
name: "Peter Frans Van Kerckhoven"
slug: "peter-frans-van-kerckhoven"
description: "Pieter Frans van Kerckhoven was a Flemish writer and one of the leaders of the early Flemish movement. He was the son of a broker, and his well-off birth allowed him a decent education. After he had first been instructed in a private school, he passed through the Antwerp athenaeum together with his contemporary and friend Domien Sleeckx. Van Kerckhoven was in that period a tireless reader and spent almost his entire pocket money to buy books of the French traditional authors. During his youth, Van Kerckhoven was, just like the rest of its family, very religious. After Van Kerckhoven in 1836, graduated from the Antwerp athenaeum, he studied medicine in Italy, at the University of Bologna. In Italy, Van Kerckhoven witnessed the restless and rebellious Risorgimento. The confrontation with the liberal and anticlerical Risorgimento movement would determine his later progressive-liberal conviction. Van Kerckhoven evolved from a pious catholic to an enthusiastic and persuaded liberal. In spite of the personal change which Van Kerckhoven underwent in Italy, he remained, however, religious."
tagline: "Writer (1818-1857)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Pieter_Frans_van_Kerckhoven%2C_asset_n1rJDdrUIdbWhPkuqe4yXwOW.tif?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1818-11-10"
deathDate: "1857-08-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.43
  momentum:             15
  historical:           6.335385333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrus_Frans_van_Kerckhoven"
    title: "Petrus Frans van Kerckhoven"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Frans_van_Kerckhoven"
    title: "Peter Frans van Kerckhoven"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrus_Frans_van_Kerckhoven"
    title: "Petrus Frans van Kerckhoven"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrus_Frans_van_Kerckhoven"
    title: "Petrus Frans van Kerckhoven"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Frans_Van_Kerckhoven"
    title: "Peter Frans Van Kerckhoven"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_Frans_van_Kerckhoven"
    title: "Pieter Frans van Kerckhoven"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BD%2C_%D0%9F%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80_%D0%A4%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81_%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD"
    title: "Керкговен, Питер Франс ван"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q725284"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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