# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ake-ohlmarks
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:45:16.134Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ake-ohlmarks"
name: "Åke Ohlmarks"
slug: "ake-ohlmarks"
description: "Åke Joel Ohlmarks was a Swedish author, translator and scholar of philology, linguistics and religious studies. He worked as a lecturer at the University of Greifswald from 1941 to 1945, where he founded the institute for religious studies together with the Deutsche Christen member Wilhelm Koepp. His most notable contribution to the field is his 1939 study of Shamanism. As a translator, he is notable for his Swedish version of the Icelandic Edda, of Shakespeare's works and a heavily criticised translation of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, as well as a version of the Qur'an and works by writers including Dante and Nostradamus."
tagline: "Swedish writer and academic (1911-1984)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/%C3%85keOhlmarks_SvD_A4_1938-09-26.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Sweden"
  isoCode: "SE"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1911-06-03"
deathDate: "1984-06-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.8
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.030096
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0645043/"
    handle:    "nm0645043"
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%85ke_Ohlmarks"
    title: "Åke Ohlmarks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%83_%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%87%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%83%D8%B3"
    title: "اوك اوهلماركس"
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  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%85ke_Ohlmarks"
    title: "Åke Ohlmarks"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%85ke_Ohlmarks"
    title: "Åke Ohlmarks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%85ke_Ohlmarks"
    title: "Åke Ohlmarks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%85ke_Ohlmarks"
    title: "Åke Ohlmarks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%85ke_Ohlmarks"
    title: "Åke Ohlmarks"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q270901"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1044701"
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    type:  "DATABASE"

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