# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jens-christian-svabo
# Generated: 2026-08-15T10:40:24.250Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jens-christian-svabo"
name: "Jens Christian Svabo"
slug: "jens-christian-svabo"
description: "Jens Christian Svabo was a pioneering Faroese linguist, scholar, and ethnographer. At the time the islands were part of Denmark-Norway. Svabo was born in Miðvágur, Vágar, the Faroe Islands to a minister and his wife. Svabo studied history, music, and theology in Miðvágur and later in Tórshavn. Between 1765 and 1800 he lived in Denmark and studied music there, especially the violin. In 1800, he returned to Tórshavn and lived in a house known as the Pætursarstova: it was in the attic of this home that in 1928 a book of songs written by Svabo was found. This manuscript is now part of the collection of the Føroya Landsbókasavn."
tagline: "Faroese linguist"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1746"
deathDate: "1824-02-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             1.204819277108434
  historical:           9.670014666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "چينس كريستيان سڤابو"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jens_Christian_Svabo"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump