# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bo-giertz
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:36:46.593Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bo-giertz"
name: "Bo Giertz"
slug: "bo-giertz"
description: "Bo Harald Giertz was a Swedish Lutheran theologian, novelist and bishop of the Gothenburg Lutheran Diocese from 1949 to 1970. By the time he became bishop, he was already quite well known in Sweden and elsewhere both as an author and as a priest. He worked hard to promote western Swedish Pietism, an outlook that strongly resembled Neo-Lutheranism. Mostly it was a piety that took Scripture seriously, though not in a fundamentalist, literalist sense, and that centered Christian life on sacraments and prayer. Giertz's combination of pietist pastoral care with High Church Lutheran theology, which can also be noticed in his novels, gained for him a wide readership and made his novels as well as non-fiction books about Christian faith popular in Scandinavia. Giertz wrote more than 600 works but is known in the English-speaking world mostly for his book The Hammer of God."
tagline: "Swedish bishop (1905–1998)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bo_Giertz.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Sweden"
  isoCode: "SE"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1905-08-31"
deathDate: "1998-07-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.51
  momentum:             5.91754825114347
  historical:           9.702342666666668
  currentAttention:     11.64483260553129
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_Giertz"
    title: "Bo Giertz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%88_%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AA%D8%B2"
    title: "بو جيرتز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_Giertz"
    title: "Bo Giertz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_Giertz"
    title: "Bo Giertz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_Giertz"
    title: "Bo Giertz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_Giertz"
    title: "Bo Giertz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_Giertz"
    title: "Bo Giertz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C5%AB_G%C4%ABrcs"
    title: "Bū Gīrcs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_Giertz"
    title: "Bo Giertz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_Giertz"
    title: "Bo Giertz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_Giertz"
    title: "Bo Giertz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%99%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%82%D1%81%2C_%D0%91%D1%83"
    title: "Йертс, Бу"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q887379"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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