Elias Lönnrot
1802 – 1884 · aged 82
Finnish physician, philologist and collector of traditional Finnish oral poetry (1802–1884)
- Born
- 9 Apr 1802 · Sammatti (Finland : Kunta)
- Died
- 19 Mar 1884 · Sammatti (Finland : Kunta)
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- 9 Apr 1802BornBorn in Sammatti (Finland : Kunta)
- 1856AwardOrder of Saint Anna, 3rd class
- 1862AwardOrder of Saint Stanislaus, 2nd class
- 1865AwardKnight of the Order of the Polar Star
- 1871AwardPour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order
- 19 Mar 1884DiedDied in Sammatti (Finland : Kunta)
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- 1812 – 1815War of 1812
- 1814 – 1815Congress of Vienna
- 1853 – 1856Crimean War
- 1857 – 1858Indian Rebellion of 1857
- 1870 – 1871Franco-Prussian War
Biography
Elias Lönnrot (Finnish: [ˈeliɑs ˈlønruːt] ; 9 April 1802 – 19 March 1884) was a Finnish medical doctor, philosopher, poet, musician, linguist, journalist, philologist and collector of traditional Finnish oral poetry. He is best known for synthesizing the Finnish national epic, Kalevala (1835, enlarged 1849) from short ballads and lyric poems he gathered from Finnish oral tradition during several field expeditions in Finland, Russian Karelia, the Kola Peninsula and Baltic countries. In botany, he is remembered as the author of the 1860 Flora Fennica, the first scientific text written in Finnish rather than in Latin.
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