# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jens-andreas-friis
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:21:40.041Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jens-andreas-friis"
name: "Jens Andreas Friis"
slug: "jens-andreas-friis"
description: "Jens Andreas Friis was a Norwegian philologist, lexicographer and author. He was a university professor and a prominent linguist of the languages spoken by the Sami people. He is widely recognized as the founder of the study of Sami languages. Today he is also commonly associated with his novel Lajla: A New Tale of Finmark, which was adapted into the opera Lajla, and the 1929 silent film Laila."
tagline: "Norwegian linguist (1821-1896)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jens_Andreas_Friis.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "NO"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1821-05-02"
deathDate: "1896-02-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.458333333333333
  historical:           7.470626666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0295732"
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    title: "Jens Andreas Friis"
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    title: "Ենս Անդրեաս Ֆրիս"
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    title: "Jens Andreas Friis"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump