# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-van-der-veer
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:59:41.818Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-van-der-veer"
name: "Peter van der Veer"
slug: "peter-van-der-veer"
description: "Peter van der Veer is a Dutch academic who is the Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen in Germany. He has taught anthropology at the Free University of Amsterdam, Utrecht University and the University of Pennsylvania. Van der Veer works on religion and nationalism in Asia and Europe."
tagline: "Dutch anthropologist"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1953-05-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.48
  momentum:             1.03448275862069
  historical:           5.938733333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B1_%DA%A4%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B1_%DA%A4%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "پيتير ڤان دير ڤير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "পিটার ভ্যান ডের ভির"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_van_der_Veer"
    title: "Peter van der Veer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_van_der_Veer"
    title: "Peter van der Veer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_van_der_Veer"
    title: "Peter van der Veer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_van_der_Veer"
    title: "Peter van der Veer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q822635"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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