# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/georg-august-forsten
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:00:27.511Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/georg-august-forsten"
name: "Georg August Forstén"
slug: "georg-august-forsten"
description: "Georgīĭ Vasilevich Forsten was a Russo-Finnish historian and professor at Saint Petersburg University in Russia. He was a specialist in the history of Scandinavia and the Baltic region and one of the founders of research into Scandinavian history in Russia. Later he turned to the Reformation and the history of humanism in Germany."
tagline: "Finnish historian (1857-1910)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Georg_Forst%C3%A9n.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1857-05-30"
deathDate: "1910-07-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.51
  momentum:             1.891891891891892
  historical:           4.603168
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AC_%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%AC%D8%B3%D8%AA_%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "جورج اوجست فورستين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._V._Forsten"
    title: "G. V. Forsten"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_August_Forst%C3%A9n"
    title: "Georg August Forstén"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BD%2C_%D0%93%D0%B5%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%92%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Форстен, Георгий Васильевич"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_August_Forst%C3%A9n"
    title: "Georg August Forstén"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4354595"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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