Elias Lönnrot
Also known as Lönnrot | E.F. Lönnrot
Finnish physician, philologist and collector of traditional Finnish oral poetry (1802-1884)
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Elias Lönnrot was a Finnish physician and language scholar who traveled throughout Finland in the 1800s collecting traditional folk poems and stories from ordinary people. His work preserving these oral traditions was important for establishing a sense of Finnish cultural identity and led to the creation of the Kalevala, Finland's national epic.
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- Born
- 1802
- Died
- 1884
- Works
- 56
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- Flora Fennica
- Valikoima Kantelettaren runoja
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- Finskt-svenskt lexikon
- Suomen kansan arwoituksia ynnä 189 wiron arwoituksen kanssa
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Elias Lönnrot was Finnish physician, philologist and collector of traditional Finnish oral poetry. Lönnrot compiled the Finnish epic Kalevala.
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Elias Lönnrot ( Finnish: [ˈeliɑs ˈlønruːt] ; 9 April 1802 – 19 March 1884) 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 (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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