# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/harald-edelstam
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:45:05.284Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/harald-edelstam"
name: "Harald Edelstam"
slug: "harald-edelstam"
description: "Gustav Harald Edelstam was a Swedish diplomat. During World War II he earned the nickname Svarta nejlikan for helping hundreds of Norwegian Jews, SOE agents, and saboteurs escape from the Germans. During the early 1970s he was stationed in Santiago, Chile, and became known as the \"Raoul Wallenberg of the 1970s\" when he helped over 1,200 Chileans, hundreds of Cuban diplomats and civilians, and 67 Uruguayan and Bolivian refugees escape persecution by dictator Augusto Pinochet."
tagline: "Swedish diplomat (1913-1989)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Harald_p%C3%A5_balkongen.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Sweden"
  isoCode: "SE"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1913-03-17"
deathDate: "1989-04-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.1025641025641026
  historical:           12.70212666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.edelstam.org/background/"
sources:
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    title: "Гаральд Едельстам"
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    title: "Harald Edelstam"
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    title: "Harald Edelstam"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald_Edelstam"
    title: "Harald Edelstam"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Harald Edelstam"
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    title: "Harald Edelstam"
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    title: "Harald Edelstam"
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    title: "Harald Edelstam"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ഹാരോൾഡ് എഡെൽസ്റ്റാം"
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    title: "Harald Edelstam"
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    title: "Harald Edelstam"
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    title: "Эдельстам, Харальд"
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    title: "Harald Edelstam"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump