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100 1 _aTalvio, Maila,
_d1871-1951
245 1 0 _aJohan Ludvig Runeberg
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2025-06-20
520 _a"Johan Ludvig Runeberg" by Maila Talvio is a literary biography written in the early 20th century. It charts the rise of Finland’s national poet from a modest coastal childhood to cultural preeminence, emphasizing the experiences, friendships, and ideals that shaped his voice. Expect an intimate, source-based portrait of his formative years, teaching and editorial work, and the seeds of the poems that would define a nation. The opening of the biography moves from a seer’s “crown” vision in Pietarsaari to Runeberg’s frail, poor childhood, strict schooling in Oulu and Vaasa, mischievous boldness, early verses, and deepening love of nature, hunting, and birds. Hardship marks his student life in Turku until tutoring in Saarijärvi immerses him in the Finnish heartland—landscape and people that kindle Hirvenhiihtäjät—and in Ruovesi he gathers veterans’ tales that feed later war poetry. Returning to Turku, and then Helsinki after the great fire, he enters a brilliant circle (Snellman, Lönnrot, Cygnaeus, Nervander), publishes his first poems, secures academic posts, and marries Fredrika Tengström. He helps found the Lauantai Society, teaches at the new lyceum, edits Helsingfors Morgonblad, and—per Topelius’s lively recollections—maintains a frugal yet warm household while tutoring rigorously. After failing to obtain a university chair but achieving new literary success with Hanna, he takes the Porvoo lectureship; the section closes with the family’s arduous spring arrival there. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cHelsinki: Frenckellin Kirjapaino-Osakeyhtiö, 1900
653 _aRuneberg, Johan Ludvig, 1804-1877
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76343
999 _c117068
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