The New York Times: ELIAS LONNROT'S DEATH.
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Elias Lönnrot
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 c…
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science · Finnish polymath and poet (1802–1884) · lexicographer · linguist · pedagogue · writer · poet · hymnwriter · physician writer · botanist · folklorist · physician · also Elias Lönnrot, Lönnrot | E.F. Lönnrot, Lönnrot
Born 9 April 1802 · Died 19 March 1884 · Q153159
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2024· 1 entry
Helsingin Sanomat: Elias Lönnrot -veistos töhrittiin Helsingissä
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2016· 1 entry
Yle: Näkökulma: Elias Lönnrot menisi KeuPan peleihin
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2015· 1 entry
Yle: Siipirataslaiva Elias Lönnrot risteilee taas
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2014· 1 entry
ksml.fi: Elias Lönnrot -laivan kunnostukseen ehkä sittenkin rahaa Keuruulla
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1884· 1 entry
Died 1884-03-19.
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1871· 1 entry
Awarded Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order (1871).
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1865· 1 entry
Awarded Knight of the Order of the Polar Star (1865).
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1862· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Saint Stanislaus, 2nd class (1862).
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1856· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Saint Anna, 3rd class (1856).
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1831· 1 entry
The Finnish Literature Society was founded, and Lönnrot, being one of the founders, received financial support from the society for his efforts to collect folk tales
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1827· 1 entry
And began collecting folk tales from rural people around the same time
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1802· 1 entry
Born 1802-04-09.
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