# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-stbye
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:51:49.104Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-stbye"
name: "Peter Østbye"
slug: "peter-stbye"
description: "Peter Nielsen Østbye was a Norwegian philologist and academic administrator. He taught classical languages and was a proponent of learning the Latin language. He was an education official at Fredrikstad between 1894-1910 and at Drammen between 1910-1926.\nHe is principally known for his translations of Homer's epic poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey from Ancient Greek into Norwegian."
tagline: "Norwegian philologist and translator (1855–1943)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Peter_%C3%98stbye_(1855-1943).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Norway"
  isoCode: "NO"
birthDate: "1855-02-20"
deathDate: "1943-02-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           33.01
  momentum:             7.5
  historical:           5.267458666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_%C3%98stbye_(philologue)"
    title: "Peter Østbye (philologue)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A8%D9%89"
    title: "پيتير اوستبى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_%C3%98stbye"
    title: "Peter Østbye"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_%C3%98stbye"
    title: "Peter Østbye"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrus_%C3%98stbye"
    title: "Petrus Østbye"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_%C3%98stbye_(filolog)"
    title: "Peter Østbye (filolog)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11995485"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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