# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hjalmar-hjorth-boyesen
# Generated: 2026-08-15T15:37:45.994Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hjalmar-hjorth-boyesen"
name: "Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen"
slug: "hjalmar-hjorth-boyesen"
description: "Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen was a Norwegian-American author and college professor. He is best remembered for his novel Gunnar: A Tale of Norse Life, which is generally considered to have been the first novel by a Norwegian immigrant in America."
tagline: "American writer (1848–1895)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hjalmar_H._Boyesen%2C_ca_1900.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1848-09-23"
deathDate: "1895-10-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.14
  momentum:             3.103448275862069
  historical:           7.005472
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hjalmar_Boyesen"
    title: "Hjalmar Boyesen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hjalmar_Hjorth_Boyesen"
    title: "Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hjalmar_Hjorth_Boyesen"
    title: "Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hjalmar_Boyesen"
    title: "Hjalmar Boyesen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hjalmar_Hjorth_Boyesen"
    title: "Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%96%84%EB%A7%88%EB%A5%B4_%EB%B3%B4%EC%9C%84%EC%97%90%EC%84%BC"
    title: "얄마르 보위에센"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hjalmar_Hjorth_Boyesen"
    title: "Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%BE%D0%B9%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BD%2C_%D0%AF%D0%BB%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%80_%D0%99%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%82"
    title: "Бойесен, Ялмар Йорт"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1621314"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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