# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jon-helgason
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:28:24.765Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jon-helgason"
name: "Jón Helgason"
slug: "jon-helgason"
description: "Jón Helgason was an Icelandic philologist and poet. He was head of the Danish Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies from 1927 to 1972 and professor of Icelandic studies at the University of Copenhagen from 1929 to 1969. He made significant contributions to his field. As a poet, he was not prolific but noted for his highly polished and effective traditional poetry. His best-known poems are Áfangar and Í Árnasafni."
tagline: "Icelandic writer (1899–1986)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1899-06-30"
deathDate: "1986-01-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.77
  momentum:             15
  historical:           8.334953333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B3n_Helgason_(poet)"
    title: "Jón Helgason (poet)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B3n_Helgason_(Schriftsteller%2C_1899)"
    title: "Jón Helgason (Schriftsteller, 1899)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B3n_Helgason_(poet)"
    title: "Jón Helgason (poet)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B3n_Helgason"
    title: "Jón Helgason"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B3n_Helgason"
    title: "Jón Helgason"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B3n_Helgason"
    title: "Jón Helgason"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B3n_Helgason_(pr%C3%B3fessor)"
    title: "Jón Helgason (prófessor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A8%E3%82%A6%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%98%E3%83%AB%E3%82%AC%E3%82%BD%E3%83%B3"
    title: "ヨウン・ヘルガソン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B3n_Helgason"
    title: "Jón Helgason"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B3n_Helgason"
    title: "Jón Helgason"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q984003"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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