# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pieter-caland
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:59:45.528Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/pieter-caland"
name: "Pieter Caland"
slug: "pieter-caland"
description: "Pieter Caland was a Dutch civil engineer in the service of the Rijkswaterstaat. He devised the plan for the Nieuwe Waterweg and implemented it from 1864 to 1872."
tagline: "Dutch civil engineer (1827–1902)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Pieter_Caland.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Netherlands"
  isoCode: "NL"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1827-07-23"
deathDate: "1902-07-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.44
  momentum:             6.029776674937966
  historical:           4.81224
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_Caland"
    title: "Pieter Caland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_Caland"
    title: "Pieter Caland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_Caland"
    title: "Pieter Caland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_Caland"
    title: "Pieter Caland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_Caland"
    title: "Pieter Caland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1672966"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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