# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/piet-meertens
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:29:22.405Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/piet-meertens"
name: "Piet Meertens"
slug: "piet-meertens"
description: "Pieter Jacobus (Piet) Meertens was a Dutch scholar of literature, dialects, and ethnology. He founded the institutes which later merged into the Meertens Instituut, of which he was the director until 1965."
tagline: "Dutch literary critic (1899-1985)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/PietMeertens.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1899-09-06"
deathDate: "1985-10-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.11
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.407308
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piet_Meertens"
    title: "Piet Meertens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piet_Meertens"
    title: "Piet Meertens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piet_Meertens"
    title: "Piet Meertens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piet_Meertens"
    title: "Piet Meertens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikiquote.org/wiki/Piet_Meertens"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2120248"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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