# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/eilert-ekwall
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:29:47.262Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/eilert-ekwall"
name: "Eilert Ekwall"
slug: "eilert-ekwall"
description: "Bror Oscar Eilert Ekwall was a Swedish academic, Professor of English at Sweden's Lund University from 1909 to 1942 and one of the outstanding scholars of the English language in the first half of the 20th century. He wrote works on the history of English, but he is best known as the author of numerous important books on English place-names and personal names."
tagline: "Philologist, etymologist & educator (1877–1964)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Sweden"
  isoCode: "SE"
birthDate: "1877-01-08"
deathDate: "1964-11-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.35
  momentum:             3.870967741935483
  historical:           5.271958666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Eilert Ekwall"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eilert_Ekwall"
    title: "Eilert Ekwall"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eilert_Ekwall"
    title: "Eilert Ekwall"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eilert_Ekwall"
    title: "Eilert Ekwall"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eilert_Ekwall"
    title: "Eilert Ekwall"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eilert_Ekvall"
    title: "Eilert Ekvall"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4574533"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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