# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/zaccarias-janssen
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:07:02.953Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/zaccarias-janssen"
name: "Zaccarias Janssen"
slug: "zaccarias-janssen"
description: "Zacharias Janssen; also Zacharias Jansen or Sacharias Jansen; 1585 – pre-1632) was a Dutch spectacle-maker who lived most of his life in Middelburg. He is associated with the invention of the first optical telescope and/or the first truly compound microscope, but these claims may be fabrications put forward by his son."
tagline: "Dutch spectacle maker and microscope inventor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Zacharias_Janssen.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Netherlands"
  isoCode: "NL"
birthDate: "1580"
deathDate: "1632"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.36
  momentum:             0
  historical:           18.523372
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "زاكرياس يانسن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sacharias Jansen"
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    title: "Zacharias Janssen"
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    title: "Zacharias Janssen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Янсен, Захарий"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Zacharias Jansen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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