# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-stephens
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:22:43.525Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-stephens"
name: "Thomas Stephens"
slug: "thomas-stephens"
description: "Thomas Stephens was a Welsh historian, literary critic, and social reformer. His works include The Literature of the Kymry (1849,1876), Madoc: An Essay on the Discovery of America by Madoc ap Owen Gwynedd in the Twelfth Century (1858,1893), and Orgraff yr Iaith Gymraeg (1859), as well as a number of prize-winning essays presented at eisteddfodau between 1840 and 1858. He was the first Welsh historian and literary critic to employ rigorous scientific methods, and is considered to have done more to raise the standards of the National Eisteddfod than any other Welshman of his time. Stephens also figured prominently in efforts to implement social, educational and sanitary reforms both locally in Merthyr Tydfil and more broadly throughout Wales."
tagline: "Welsh historian (1821–1875)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Thomas_Stephens_(1821%E2%80%931875)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1821-04-21"
deathDate: "1875-01-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.1428571428571429
  historical:           5.469222666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Thomas Stephens (historian)"
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    title: "توماس ستيفنس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Stephens"
    title: "Thomas Stephens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Томас Стівенс (історик)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Stephens"
    title: "Thomas Stephens"
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  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%81%2C_%D0%A2%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%81_(%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BA)"
    title: "Стивенс, Томас (историк)"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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