# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/erling-olsen
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:34:55.722Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/erling-olsen"
name: "Erling Olsen"
slug: "erling-olsen"
description: "Erling Olsen was a Danish politician for the Social Democrats. He was member of parliament 1964–66, 1971–73 and 1975–98, and was member of four Danish governments as minister of housing 1978–82 and minister of justice 1993–94. Olsen was Speaker of the Folketing from 1994 to 1998. He was professor of economics and the founder and first Dean of Roskilde University 1971–73. A man of many original ideas, he helped create the University of the Arctic, a so-called university without walls."
tagline: "Danish politician (1927-2011)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1927-04-18"
deathDate: "2011-06-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.25
  momentum:             2.142857142857143
  historical:           10.26943866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erling_Olsen_(bolitan)"
    title: "Erling Olsen (bolitan)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D8%B1%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%BA_%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86_(%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%8A)"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ارلينج اولسن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erling_Olsen"
    title: "Erling Olsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erling_Olsen"
    title: "Erling Olsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erling_Olsen_(politician)"
    title: "Erling Olsen (politician)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erling_Olsen"
    title: "Erling Olsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erling_Olsen"
    title: "Erling Olsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erling_Olsen"
    title: "Erling Olsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erling_Olsen"
    title: "Erling Olsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BD%2C_%D0%AD%D1%80%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3"
    title: "Ольсен, Эрлинг"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erling_Olsen"
    title: "Erling Olsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1101406"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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