# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/fredrik-elfving
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:46:16.060Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/fredrik-elfving"
name: "Fredrik Elfving"
slug: "fredrik-elfving"
description: "Fredrik Emil Volmar Elfving was a Swedish-speaking Finnish botanist, plant physiologist, and university administrator. During his university training, he frequently traveled abroad to learn new scientific methods and techniques from other prominent European scientists. Although his earliest publications dealt with phytogeography and phycology, his most notable research was in plant physiology. Early in his career, he published seminal work on the flow of water through the stems of woody plants, and investigated the phenomenon of transversely geotropic plant organs. In contrast to his works on plant physiology, his later experiments and views on lichens, which he himself considered his most important work, was far less favourably received."
tagline: "Finnish plant physiologist and professor (1854-1942)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Fredrik-Elfving-1870s.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1854-12-09"
deathDate: "1942-06-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.02
  momentum:             2.692307692307693
  historical:           4.802376
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredrik_Elfving"
    title: "Fredrik Elfving"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83_%D8%A5%D9%84%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%BA"
    title: "فريدريك إلفينغ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredrik_Elfving"
    title: "Fredrik Elfving"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AD%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3%2C_%D0%A4%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BA"
    title: "Эльвинг, Фредрик"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredrik_Elfving"
    title: "Fredrik Elfving"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4411433"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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