# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/elin-briem
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:45:13.248Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/elin-briem"
name: "Elín Briem"
slug: "elin-briem"
description: "Elín Rannveig Briem was an Icelandic teacher and writer who in 1889 published one of Iceland's most popular books, Kvennafræðarinn. Principally a cookbook, it also provided advice to housewives on health, hygiene and economics. The work was based on the classes she gave to her students while headmistress of the girls college at Ytri-Ey near Skagaströnd in the north of Iceland."
tagline: "Icelandic teacher and cookbook writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Elin-Briem-Eggertsdottir-crop.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1856-10-19"
deathDate: "1937-12-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           32.85
  momentum:             4.117647058823529
  historical:           5.267530666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El%C3%ADn_Briem"
    title: "Elín Briem"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%8F%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A8_%E0%A6%AC%E0%A7%8D%E0%A7%B0%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%AE"
    title: "এলিন ব্ৰিয়েম"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/El%C3%ADn_Briem"
    title: "Elín Briem"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/El%C3%ADn_Briem"
    title: "Elín Briem"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ff.wikipedia.org/wiki/El%C3%ADn_Briem"
    title: "Elín Briem"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/El%C3%ADn_Briem"
    title: "Elín Briem"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15967298"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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