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Elias Lönnrot
AuthorBooks · Second hand1802-1884
Elias Lönnrot was a Finnish polymath, physician, philosopher, poet, musician, linguist, journalist, philologist and collector of traditional Finnish oral poetry. He is best known for synthesizing the Finnish national epic, Kalevala 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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Birth
1802
Death
1884
First book
1835
Years writing
191
Elias Lönnrot was a multifaceted figure who combined his work as a physician with a deep passion for philology.
He is world-renowned for compiling and editing the Kalevala, the great national epic of Finland.
His tireless work as a folklorist helped preserve oral tradition and Finnish epic poetry for future generations.
Beyond his literary side, Lönnrot excelled as a botanist and lexicographer, demonstrating boundless intellectual curiosity.
Born in Sammatti in 1802, he dedicated his life to documenting the linguistic and cultural richness of his homeland.