# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/petrus-wesseling
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:55:23.653Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/petrus-wesseling"
name: "Petrus Wesseling"
slug: "petrus-wesseling"
description: "Petrus Wesseling was a German philologist and jurist working in the Dutch Republic. He became famous as a philologist."
tagline: "German librarian, law librarian and writer (1692-1764)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Petrus_Wesseling.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1692-01-07"
deathDate: "1764-11-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.41
  momentum:             3.571428571428573
  historical:           4.136069333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrus_Wesseling"
    title: "Petrus Wesseling"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrus_Wesseling"
    title: "Petrus Wesseling"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Wesseling"
    title: "Peter Wesseling"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrus_Wesseling"
    title: "Petrus Wesseling"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1443967"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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