# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-platter-the-younger
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:41:28.860Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-platter-the-younger"
name: "Thomas Platter the Younger"
slug: "thomas-platter-the-younger"
description: "Thomas Platter the Younger was a Swiss-born physician, traveller, and diarist, the son of the humanist Thomas Platter the Elder. He was a professor of anatomy, botany, and medicine at the University of Basel, as well as the city physician for Basel."
tagline: "Swiss physician, traveller and writer (1574-1628)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Thomas_Plater_(Platter)_II._Line_engraving_by_P._Aubry._Wellcome_V0004695.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Switzerland"
  isoCode: "CH"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1574-07-24"
deathDate: "1628-12-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.79
  momentum:             6.666666666666666
  historical:           7.00918
  currentAttention:     37.03703703703704
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Platter_il_Giovane"
    title: "Thomas Platter il Giovane"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://als.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Platter_der_J%C3%BCngere"
    title: "Thomas Platter der Jüngere"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3_%D8%A8%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B5%D8%BA%D8%B1"
    title: "توماس بلاتر الاصغر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Platter_der_J%C3%BCngere"
    title: "Thomas Platter der Jüngere"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Platter_the_Younger"
    title: "Thomas Platter the Younger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Platter_la_Juna"
    title: "Thomas Platter la Juna"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Platter_el_Joven"
    title: "Thomas Platter el Joven"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Platter_le_Jeune"
    title: "Thomas Platter le Jeune"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116577"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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