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Johan Vilhelm Snellman
Johan Vilhelm Snellman was a Finland-Swedish philosopher, journalist and statesman, and one of the leading figures of Fennoman nationalism in 19th-century Finland. A central exponent of Hegelian philosophy in the Nordic countries, he is regarded as one of the most important 'awakeners' of Finnish national identity, alongside Elias Lönnrot and J. L. Runeberg.
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culture · Finland-Swedish philosopher and statesman (1806–1881) · politician · philosopher · writer · university teacher · journalist · editor · also Johan Vilhelm Snellman, Juhana Vilhelm San, Snellman
Born 12 May 1806 · Died 4 July 1881 · Q127688
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2006· 1 entry
1906· 1 entry
Was marked by a mass campaign to replace Swedish family names with Finnish ones, and he became the first historical figure to appear on a banknote in independent Finland
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1881· 1 entry
Died 1881-07-04.
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1866· 2 entries
Is commemorated annually on his birthday, 12 May, which is celebrated as the Day of Finnish Identity
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Snellman represented the nobility at the Diets of 1867, 1872 and 1877
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1865· 1 entry
Awarded Order of St. Vladimir, 3rd class (1865).
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1863· 1 entry
Snellman was appointed to the Senate of Finland as head of the first department of the finance committee
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1860· 1 entry
Originally tied to the ruble; in 1865 Snellman carried through the monetary reform that pegged it to silver instead
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1856· 2 entries
And served as a senator and head of the first department of the finance committee from 1863 to 1868, during which time he carried through the monetary reform that pegged the Finnish markka to silver
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Was finally appointed professor of moral philosophy and the system of the sciences, a development welcomed by politically engaged Finns
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1846· 1 entry
After which Snellman continued his journalism in the periodical Litteraturblad
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1845· 1 entry
Had married Johanna (Jeannette) Lovisa Wennberg (1828–1857), with whom he had several children before her death in 1857
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1842· 1 entry
The political situation did not allow the university to employ him
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1839· 1 entry
And spent the years 1839–1842 in Sweden and Germany
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1838· 1 entry
His lectureship was temporarily suspended
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1835· 1 entry
Snellman was appointed lecturer (docent) at the University of Helsinki, and became closely associated with Hegelian philosophy
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1828· 1 entry
When the university was moved there after the Great Fire of Turku
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1822· 1 entry
Initially intending to study for the priesthood, alongside the slightly older J
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1813· 1 entry
Four years after Sweden had ceded Finland to Russia in the Finnish War, the family moved to the Ostrobothnian coastal town of Kokkola (then known in Swedish as Gamlakarleby), where Snellman's mother died the following ye
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1806· 1 entry
Born 1806-05-12.
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