# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/erik-sjoqvist
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:59:31.828Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/erik-sjoqvist"
name: "Erik Sjöqvist"
slug: "erik-sjoqvist"
description: "Erik Sjöqvist was a Swedish archaeologist and educator. Sjöqvist conducted archaeological fieldwork in Cyprus while participating in Swedish Cyprus Expedition. He was director of Swedish Institute at Rome and professor of classical archaeology at Princeton University.\nHe is most commonly associated with development of the excavations of the archaeological sites at Morgantina in Sicily."
tagline: "Swedish archaeologist (1903-1975)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Erik_Sj%C3%B6qvist._Stockholm._portr%C3%A4tt._Sverige_-_SMVK_-_C05770.tif?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Sweden"
  isoCode: "SE"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1903-07-15"
deathDate: "1975-07-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           35.02
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.802484
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "اريك سچوكڤيست"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Sj%C3%B6qvist"
    title: "Erik Sjöqvist"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Sj%C3%B6qvist"
    title: "Erik Sjöqvist"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Sj%C3%B6qvist"
    title: "Erik Sjöqvist"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Sj%C3%B6qvist_(arkeolog)"
    title: "Erik Sjöqvist (arkeolog)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5388837"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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