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Finnish literature

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Finnish literature The first printed work in Finnish was the ABC book published c.1542 by Bishop Michael Agricola (1508-57). In 1642 the first complete translation of the Bible in Finnish appeared in Stockholm. Until the 19th cent. most of the writing done by Finns was in Swedish, since from the 13th cent. to 1809 Finland was in political vassalage to Sweden. The linguistic researches of Alexander Castrén (1813-53), as well as the historical writings of Henry Gabriel Porthan (1739-1804) and the publication (1835) by Elias Lönnrot of the Kalevala , helped to feed interest in Finnish... Read more

Johan Ludvig Runeberg
, 1804-77, Finnish national poet. In 1837 he became a teacher...toward false rhetoric in Scandinavian literature. His first long work was the realistic...1925, 1938), has been adopted as the Finnish national anthem. Like other Finnish authors of his day, Runeberg wrote in... Read more

Runeberg, Johan Ludvig
...significantly contributed to the Finnish people's sense of national...saga based on the Swedish-Finnish war against Russia waged...shared a written language and literature with Sweden, were thrown...roles in establishing both a Finnish literature and a national identity...the peasantry, who ... Read more

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