# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sonja-lyttkens
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:35:43.090Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sonja-lyttkens"
name: "Sonja Lyttkens"
slug: "sonja-lyttkens"
description: "Sonja Lyttkens was a Swedish mathematician, the third woman to earn a mathematics doctorate in Sweden and the first of these women to obtain a permanent university position in mathematics. She is also known for her work to make academia less hostile to women, and for pointing out that the Swedish taxation system of the time, which provided an income deduction for husbands of non-working wives, pressured women even in low-income families not to work. Her observations helped push Sweden into taxing married people separately from their spouses."
tagline: "Swedish mathematician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sonja_Lyttkens.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Sweden"
  isoCode: "SE"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1919-08-26"
deathDate: "2014-12-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.14
  momentum:             11.05263157894737
  historical:           5.003168000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A7_%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B2"
    title: "سونيا ليتكينز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonja_Lyttkens"
    title: "Sonja Lyttkens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonja_Lyttkens"
    title: "Sonja Lyttkens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonja_Lyttkens"
    title: "Sonja Lyttkens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonja_Lyttkens"
    title: "Sonja Lyttkens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19844789"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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