# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/petrus-bertius
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:29:42.322Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/petrus-bertius"
name: "Petrus Bertius"
slug: "petrus-bertius"
description: "Petrus Bertius was a Flemish philosopher, theologian, historian, geographer and cartographer. Bertius published much in mathematics, and historical and theological works, but he is now best known as a cartographer with his edition of the Geographia of Ptolemy, which includes Mercator's Ptolemaic atlas from 1578 as well as parallel Greek and Latin texts."
tagline: "Flemish theologian and scientist (1565–1629)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Portret_van_Petrus_Bertius%2C_hoogleraar_te_Leiden_BN_116.tiff?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1565-11-14"
deathDate: "1629-10-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             12.58256506010036
  historical:           8.074298666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Бертиус, Петрус"
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    title: "Petrus Bertius"
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    title: "Petrus Bertius"
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    title: "Petrus Bertius"
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    title: "Petrus Bertius"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Bertius"
    title: "Pierre Bertius"
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  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8A%D5%A5%D5%BF%D6%80%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%BD_%D4%B2%D5%A5%D6%80%D5%BF%D5%AB%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%BD"
    title: "Պետրուս Բերտիուս"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Petrus Bertius"
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    title: "Petrus Bertius"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump