# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/eric-hulten
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:08:04.179Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/eric-hulten"
name: "Eric Hultén"
slug: "eric-hulten"
description: "Oskar Eric Gunnar Hultén was a Swedish botanist, plant geographer and 20th century explorer of The Arctic. He was born in Halla in Södermanland. He took his licentiate exam 1931 at Stockholm University and obtained his doctorate degree in botany at Lund University in 1937. In his thesis, he coined the term Beringia for the ice-age land bridge between Eurasia and North America. From 1945 to 1961, he was a professor and head of the Botany Section at the Swedish Museum of Natural History. In 1953, he was elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences as member number 977."
tagline: "Swedish botanist (1894-1981)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Eric_Hult%C3%A9n.jpg?width=1200"
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country:
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category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "scientist"
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birthDate: "1894-03-18"
deathDate: "1981-02-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump