# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/velta-ruke-dravina
# Generated: 2026-08-15T01:27:58.356Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/velta-ruke-dravina"
name: "Velta Ruke-Dravina"
slug: "velta-ruke-dravina"
description: "Velta Ruke-Dravina was a Latvian-born Swedish linguist and folklorist, as well as a professor in Baltic languages at Stockholm University. Ruke-Dravina's research interests included children's language, language contact, and dialectology. Her doctoral thesis was about diminutives in Latvian. She held the only professorship in Baltic languages outside the Baltics and had a leading role in developing the teaching program on the subject at Stockholm University. In 1980, she was elected as a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities."
tagline: "Latvian-born Swedish linguist, folklorist, professor (1917-2003)"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Sweden"
  isoCode: "SE"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1917-01-25"
deathDate: "2003-05-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.64
  momentum:             18.02325581395349
  historical:           6.802016
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velta_R%C5%AB%C4%B7e-Dravi%C5%86a"
    title: "Velta Rūķe-Draviņa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A4%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%A7_%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%83_%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%DA%A4%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%A7"
    title: "ڤيلتا روك دراڤينا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velta_R%C5%AB%C4%B7e-Dravi%C5%86a"
    title: "Velta Rūķe-Draviņa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velta_Ruke-Dravina"
    title: "Velta Ruke-Dravina"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velta_R%C5%AB%C4%B7e-Dravi%C5%86a"
    title: "Velta Rūķe-Draviņa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velta_R%C5%AB%C4%B7e-Dravi%C5%86a"
    title: "Velta Rūķe-Draviņa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velta_R%C5%AB%C4%B7e-Dravi%C5%86a"
    title: "Velta Rūķe-Draviņa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D1%83%D0%BA%D0%B5-%D0%94%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%8F%2C_%D0%92%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%82%D0%B0"
    title: "Руке-Дравиня, Велта"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13561169"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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