# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-jan-van-pelt
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:11:24.296Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-jan-van-pelt"
name: "Robert Jan van Pelt"
slug: "robert-jan-van-pelt"
description: "Robert Jan van Pelt is a Dutch author, architectural historian, professor at the University of Waterloo and a Holocaust scholar. One of the world's leading experts on Auschwitz, he regularly speaks on Holocaust related topics, through which he has come to address Holocaust denial. He was an expert witness in Deborah Lipstadt's successful defence in the civil libel suit brought against her by British author and Holocaust denier David Irving in 1996."
tagline: "Dutch historian"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/VWI_LectureRJPelt.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1955-08-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.5
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.164833333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0887721/"
    handle:    "nm0887721"
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%9F%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%82%2C_%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%82_%D0%AF%D0%BD"
    title: "Ван Пелт, Роберт Ян"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%AA_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%AA"
    title: "روبرت جان فان بيلت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Jan_van_Pelt"
    title: "Robert Jan van Pelt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Jan_van_Pelt"
    title: "Robert Jan van Pelt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Jan_van_Pelt"
    title: "Robert Jan van Pelt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Jan_van_Pelt"
    title: "Robert Jan van Pelt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q937396"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/557140"
    title: "Robert Jan van Pelt"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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