# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-von-westen
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:56:00.847Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-von-westen"
name: "Thomas von Westen"
slug: "thomas-von-westen"
description: "Thomas von Westen was a Norwegian Lutheran priest and missionary. He was a driving force in the Sami mission, and founded the education institution Seminarium Scholasticum, the later Seminarium Lapponicum, in Trondheim."
tagline: "Norwegian missionary (1682–1727)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Thomas_von_Westen.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Norway"
  isoCode: "NO"
birthDate: "1682-09-13"
deathDate: "1727-04-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.93
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.937185333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Thomas von Westen"
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    title: "Thomas von Westen"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_von_Westen"
    title: "Thomas von Westen"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_von_Westen"
    title: "Thomas von Westen"
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  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_von_Westen"
    title: "Thomas von Westen"
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  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_von_Westen"
    title: "Thomas von Westen"
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  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_von_Westen"
    title: "Thomas von Westen"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q329537"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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