# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/theodoor-gautier-thomas-pigeaud
# Generated: 2026-08-16T11:05:56.961Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/theodoor-gautier-thomas-pigeaud"
name: "Theodoor Gautier Thomas Pigeaud"
slug: "theodoor-gautier-thomas-pigeaud"
description: "Theodoor Gautier Thomas Pigeaud was a German-born Dutch lexicographer and expert in Javanese literature. He especially became famous for his Javanese–Dutch dictionary (1938) that Poerwadarminto chose as the foundation of Baoesastra Djawa. Moreover, Pigeaud is also known because of his monumental study of Nagarakretagama and text catalogs of the manuscripts in the libraries of the Netherlands, Denmark, and Germany."
tagline: "Dutch lexicographer (1899-1988)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Pigeaud_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1899-02-20"
deathDate: "1988-03-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.15
  momentum:             15.25423728813559
  historical:           4.804356
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodoor_Gautier_Thomas_Pigeaud"
    title: "Theodoor Gautier Thomas Pigeaud"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodoor_Gautier_Thomas_Pigeaud"
    title: "Theodoor Gautier Thomas Pigeaud"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://jv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodoor_Gautier_Thomas_Pigeaud"
    title: "Theodoor Gautier Thomas Pigeaud"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodoor_Gautier_Thomas_Pigeaud"
    title: "Theodoor Gautier Thomas Pigeaud"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodoor_Gautier_Thomas_Pigeaud"
    title: "Theodoor Gautier Thomas Pigeaud"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2004992"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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