# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/orvar-lofgren
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:46:10.405Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/orvar-lofgren"
name: "Orvar Löfgren"
slug: "orvar-lofgren"
description: "Orvar Löfgren is a Swedish professor emeritus of ethnology at Lund University in Sweden. Löfgren received his PhD in European ethnology in 1978 for his dissertation, Maritime hunters in industrial society: the transformation of a Swedish fishing community 1800–1970. He was Professor of European Ethnology at Lund University from 1991 to 2008, and a visiting professor at University of California, Santa Cruz, in 1983, 1986 and 1997."
tagline: "Professor Emeritus, Division of Ethnology, Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences, Lund University"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Orvar_L%C3%B6fgren.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Sweden"
  isoCode: "SE"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1943-10-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             15
  historical:           5.936033333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Орвар Льофгрен"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump