# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/olaus-verelius
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:44:23.852Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/olaus-verelius"
name: "Olaus Verelius"
slug: "olaus-verelius"
description: "Olaus or Olof Verelius was a Swedish scholar of Northern antiquities who published the first edition of a saga and the first Old Norse-Swedish dictionary and is held to have been the founder of the Hyperborean School which led to Gothicism."
tagline: "Scholar of Old Norse and Scandinavian studies (1618-1682)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Olof_Verelius.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Sweden"
  isoCode: "SE"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1618-02-12"
deathDate: "1682-01-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.76
  momentum:             1.153846153846154
  historical:           7.20468
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%84_%D0%92%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%96%D0%B9"
    title: "Олаф Верелій"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B3_%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B3"
    title: "اولاوس فيريليوس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olof_Verelius"
    title: "Olof Verelius"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olaus_Verelius"
    title: "Olaus Verelius"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olof_Verelius"
    title: "Olof Verelius"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olof_Verelius"
    title: "Olof Verelius"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B9%2C_%D0%9E%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%84"
    title: "Верелий, Олаф"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olof_Verelius"
    title: "Olof Verelius"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q445867"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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