# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bjorn-kurten
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:19:59.425Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bjorn-kurten"
name: "Björn Kurtén"
slug: "bjorn-kurten"
description: "Björn Kurtén was a Finland-Swedish vertebrate paleontologist and science fiction writer."
tagline: "Finnish paleontologist (1924-1988)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Paleontologist_Bj%C3%B6rn_Kurt%C3%A9n_1969_(JOKAHBL3E_J10-2).tif?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1924-11-19"
deathDate: "1988-12-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.94
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.411088
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Björn Kurtén"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bj%C3%B6rn_Kurt%C3%A9n"
    title: "Björn Kurtén"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bj%C3%B6rn_Kurt%C3%A9n"
    title: "Björn Kurtén"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bj%C3%B6rn_Kurt%C3%A9n"
    title: "Björn Kurtén"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%86_%DA%A9%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%86"
    title: "بیورن کورتن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bj%C3%B6rn_Kurt%C3%A9n"
    title: "Björn Kurtén"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bj%C3%B6rn_Kurt%C3%A9n"
    title: "Björn Kurtén"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bj%C3%B6rn_Kurt%C3%A9n"
    title: "Björn Kurtén"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bj%C3%B6rn_Kurt%C3%A9n"
    title: "Björn Kurtén"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bj%C3%B6rn_Kurt%C3%A9n"
    title: "Björn Kurtén"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bj%C3%B6rn_Kurt%C3%A9n"
    title: "Björn Kurtén"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q375093"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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