# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rudolf-kjellen
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:29:26.340Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rudolf-kjellen"
name: "Rudolf Kjellén"
slug: "rudolf-kjellen"
description: "Johan Rudolf Kjellén was a Swedish political scientist, geographer and politician who first coined the term \"geopolitics\". His work was influenced by Friedrich Ratzel. Along with Alexander von Humboldt, Carl Ritter, and Ratzel, Kjellén would lay the foundations for the German Geopolitik that would later be espoused prominently by General Karl Haushofer."
tagline: "Swedish political scientist (1864-1922)"
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category:
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birthDate: "1864-06-13"
deathDate: "1922-11-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump