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Elsi Borg
Elsi Naemi Borg (October 3, 1893 – December 30, 1958) was a Finland, Finnish architect. Life She was born in Nastola and died in Helsinki. She graduated from Helsinki University of Technology in 1919. She designed the infamous children’s hospital Children's Castle in Helsinki and the Taulumäki Church in Jyväskylä. She worked with Olavi Sortta to design the military hospital in Vyborg, Viborg. Her brother was architect Kaarlo Borg. She is also the sister of graphic artist Esther Borg and Parliament member Margit Borg-Sundman. In 1919, Elli Ruuth together with Elsa Arokallio, Elsi Borg, Salme Setälä, Eva Kuhlefelt-Ekelund, Eva Kuhlefeld and Aili-Salli Ahde-Kjäldman , was part of the founding group of the Tumstocken association and then the Finnish Association of Women Architects. Sources *Henttonen, Maarit: ''Elsi Borg, 1893–1958, arkkitehti''. Suomen Rakennustaiteen Museo, 1995. *“BLF.” Accessed October 26, 2021. https://www.blf.fi/artikel.php?id=7791. *“Tau ...
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Margit Borg-Sundman
Margit Rode Sofia Borg-Sundman (16 October 1902 – 10 June 1992; née ''Borg'') was a Finnish politician, born in Turku. She was a member of the Parliament of Finland from 1948 to 1954 and from 1958 to 1970, representing the National Coalition Party. She was a presidential elector in the 1950 1956, 1962 and 1968 The year was highlighted by protests and other unrests that occurred worldwide. Events January–February * January 5 – "Prague Spring": Alexander Dubček is chosen as leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. * Januar ... presidential elections. References 1902 births 1992 deaths Politicians from Turku People from Turku and Pori Province (Grand Duchy of Finland) Finnish Lutherans National Coalition Party politicians Members of the Parliament of Finland (1948–1951) Members of the Parliament of Finland (1951–1954) Members of the Parliament of Finland (1958–1962) Members of the Parliament of Finland (1962–1966) Membe ...
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People From Häme Province (Grand Duchy Of Finland)
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People From Nastola
A person ( : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes. The plural form "people" is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), and this was the original meaning of the word; it subsequently acquired its use as a plural form of per ...
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1958 Deaths
Events January * January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being. * January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed. * January 4 ** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third overland journey to the South Pole, the first to use powered vehicles. ** Sputnik 1 (launched on October 4, 1957) falls to Earth from its orbit, and burns up. * January 13 – Battle of Edchera: The Moroccan Army of Liberation ambushes a Spanish patrol. * January 27 – A Soviet-American executive agreement on cultural, educational and scientific exchanges, also known as the " Lacy–Zarubin Agreement", is signed in Washington, D.C. * January 31 – The first successful American satellite, Explorer 1, is launched into orbit. February * February 1 – Egypt and Syria unite, to form the United Arab Republic. * February 6 – Seven Manchester United footballers are among the 21 people killed in the Munich air disaster in West G ...
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1893 Births
Events January–March * January 2 – Webb C. Ball introduces railroad chronometers, which become the general railroad timepiece standards in North America. * Mark Twain started writing Puddn'head Wilson. * January 6 – The Washington National Cathedral is chartered by Congress; the charter is signed by President Benjamin Harrison. * January 13 ** The Independent Labour Party of the United Kingdom has its first meeting. ** U.S. Marines from the ''USS Boston'' land in Honolulu, Hawaii, to prevent the queen from abrogating the Bayonet Constitution. * January 15 – The ''Telefon Hírmondó'' service starts with around 60 subscribers, in Budapest. * January 17 – Overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii: Lorrin A. Thurston and the Citizen's Committee of Public Safety in Hawaii, with the intervention of the United States Marine Corps, overthrow the government of Queen Liliuokalani. * January 21 ** The Cherry Sisters first perform in Marion, Iowa. ** The T ...
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Eva Kuhlefelt-Ekelund
Eva Kuhlefelt-Ekelund (5 September 1892, in Loviisa, Finland – 7 August 1984, in Helsinki, Finland) was a pioneering Finnish woman architect and spouse of another famous Finnish architect Hilding Ekelund. Eva Kuhlefelt-Ekelund matriculated from the Helsinki New Swedish secondary school in 1910. After that she studied in Helsinki University of Technology and graduated as an architect in 1916. Later she also received state grant and studied in Stockholm, Sweden between 1919 and 1921. She made study trips to Scandinavian countries as well as to Italy and France. Kuhlefelt-Ekelund also collaborated with another architect Elsi Borg and mapped and documented with her Swedish manors and castles. In year 1920 Eva Kuhlefelt married architect Hilding Ekelund and established her two part surname Kuhlefelt-Ekelund. The couple also founded their own architect office in Helsinki in 1927. Some well-known designs Eva Kuhlefelt-Ekelund designed Privata svenska flickskolan (Private Swedish gir ...
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Salme Setälä
Salme Setälä (from 1919–1930 Cornér; 18 January 1894, Helsinki — 6 October 1980, Helsinki) was a Finnish architect and writer. She graduated from the Helsinki University of Technology in 1917. She worked in a number of architecture offices. In the early 1950s she made several study trips in Europe. After that she was hired in the government office for land-use planning. She planned the land use for over 30 areas in Finland. Setälä's main interest was interior design and furniture. She also wrote books, both fiction and non-fiction. Her parents were Eemil Nestor Setälä and Helmi Krohn, and she was of Baltic German descent through her maternal grandfather Julius Krohn Julius Leopold Fredrik Krohn (19 April 1835 – 28 August 1888) was a Finnish folk poetry researcher, professor of Finnish literature, poet, hymn writer, translator and journalist. He was born in Viipuri and was of Baltic German origin. Krohn wo .... From 1919–1930 she was married to the journalist Frit ...
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Elsi Borg
Elsi Naemi Borg (October 3, 1893 – December 30, 1958) was a Finland, Finnish architect. Life She was born in Nastola and died in Helsinki. She graduated from Helsinki University of Technology in 1919. She designed the infamous children’s hospital Children's Castle in Helsinki and the Taulumäki Church in Jyväskylä. She worked with Olavi Sortta to design the military hospital in Vyborg, Viborg. Her brother was architect Kaarlo Borg. She is also the sister of graphic artist Esther Borg and Parliament member Margit Borg-Sundman. In 1919, Elli Ruuth together with Elsa Arokallio, Elsi Borg, Salme Setälä, Eva Kuhlefelt-Ekelund, Eva Kuhlefeld and Aili-Salli Ahde-Kjäldman , was part of the founding group of the Tumstocken association and then the Finnish Association of Women Architects. Sources *Henttonen, Maarit: ''Elsi Borg, 1893–1958, arkkitehti''. Suomen Rakennustaiteen Museo, 1995. *“BLF.” Accessed October 26, 2021. https://www.blf.fi/artikel.php?id=7791. *“Tau ...
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Elsa Arokallio
Elsa Arokallio (18 August 1892, Kurkijoki – 3 October 1982, Helsinki) was a Finnish architect. Life She was born in 1892 to Gustaf Arokallio and Elisabeth Parviainen. She graduated in 1910 and obtained her degree in architecture in 1919 from Helsinki University of Technology. She created an architecture firm with her husband, Erkki Väänänen. After four years of marriage he died, and Arokallio ran the firm herself. She also worked for the Ministry of Defence and helped design the barracks in Kauhava which were completed in 1933, and coastal artillery headquarters in Lahdenpohja, which were completed in 1933. In the 1930s she also worked with Elsi Borg. In 1940 Arokallio moved to Viborg where she worked with Martha Martikainen-Ypyä. After World War II she worked in Lahti with architect Könönen and designed single-family houses. She went on to work at Finland's Building Board from 1953–1959, building schools in Kokkola, Jakobstad, Tampere and Varkaus. She also began t ...
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Elli Ruuth
Elli Ruuth (1893 – 1975) was a Finnish furniture architect. She was active in 1924 – 1952. Works Ruuth designed furniture for various state and municipal buildings. According to Architecta, the Finnish association of women architects, her "most brilliant" works were the interiors of the Finnish embassy in Moscow and in Helsinki. Finnish Association of Women Architects In 1919, Elli Ruuth together with Elsa Arokallio, Elsi Borg, Salme Setälä Salme Setälä (from 1919–1930 Cornér; 18 January 1894, Helsinki — 6 October 1980, Helsinki) was a Finnish architect and writer. She graduated from the Helsinki University of Technology in 1917. She worked in a number of architecture offices. ..., Eva Kuhlefeld and Aili-Salli Ahde-Kjäldman , was part of the founding group of the Tumstocken association and then the Finnish Association of Women Architects. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Ruuth, Elli Finnish architects 1893 births 1975 deaths ...
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