# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thorsten-sellin
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:06:46.450Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thorsten-sellin"
name: "Thorsten Sellin"
slug: "thorsten-sellin"
description: "Johan Thorsten Sellin was a Swedish American sociologist at the University of Pennsylvania, a penologist and one of the pioneers of scientific criminology."
tagline: "American criminologist (1896–1994)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f9/TSellin.gif"
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: "1896-10-26"
deathDate: "1994-09-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.82
  momentum:             0.718562874251497
  historical:           5.873110666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorsten_Sellin"
    title: "Thorsten Sellin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorsten_Sellin"
    title: "Thorsten Sellin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorsten_Sellin"
    title: "Thorsten Sellin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorsten_Sellin"
    title: "Thorsten Sellin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%99%D7%95%D7%94%D7%90%D7%9F_%D7%AA'%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%A1%D7%98%D7%9F_%D7%A1%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%9F"
    title: "יוהאן ת'ורסטן סלין"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorsten_Sellin"
    title: "Thorsten Sellin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q433517"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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