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Finnicize
Finnicization (also finnicisation, fennicization, fennicisation) is the changing of one's personal names from other languages (usually Swedish) into Finnish. During the era of National Romanticism in Finland, many people, especially Fennomans, finnicized their previously Swedish family names. Some of these people were descended from Finnish-speaking farmers, who had previously changed their Finnish names to Swedish ones after climbing society's ladder. This was an understandable stratagem, as official positions (and even many trades) were only open to those speaking Swedish, and a Finnish name would have been an impediment to success. A notable event in finnicization was the centenary, in 1906, 100 years after the birth of the philosopher and statesman Johan Vilhelm Snellman. Author Johannes Linnankoski encouraged Finns to give up their Swedish names on 12 May, Snellman's birthday. During 1906 and 1907 about 70,000 Finns changed their names. Finnicized names {, class="wikitab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fennoman Movement
The Fennoman movement or Fennomania was a Finnish nationalist movement in the 19th-century Grand Duchy of Finland, built on the work of the ''fennophile'' interests of the 18th and early-19th centuries. History After the Crimean War, Fennomans founded the Finnish Party and intensified the language strife, yearning to raise the Finnish language and Finnic culture from peasant status to the position of a national language and a national culture. The opposition, the Svecomans, tried to defend the status of Swedish and the ties to the Germanic world. Although the notion of ''Fennomans'' was not as common after the generation of Juho Kusti Paasikivi (born 1870), their ideas have dominated the Finns' understanding of their nation. The mother tongue of many of the first generation of Fennomans, like Johan Vilhelm Snellman, was Swedish. Some of the originally Swedish-speaking Fennomans learned Finnish, and made a point of using it inside and outside the home. Several Fennomans w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martti Ahtisaari
Martti Oiva Kalevi Ahtisaari (; born 23 June 1937) is a Finnish politician, the tenth president of Finland (1994–2000), a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, and a United Nations diplomat and mediator noted for his international peace work. Ahtisaari was a United Nations special envoy for Kosovo, charged with organizing the Kosovo status process negotiations, aimed at resolving a long-running dispute in Kosovo, which later declared its independence from Serbia in 2008. In October 2008, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize "for his important efforts, on several continents and over more than three decades, to resolve international conflicts". The Nobel statement said that Ahtisaari had played a prominent role in resolving serious and long-lasting conflicts, including ones in Namibia, Aceh (Indonesia), [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ossian Wuorenheimo
Ossian Wuorenheimo (until 1906 Bergbom) (3 December 1845, Viborg - 13 June 1917, Helsinki) was a Finnish politician A politician is a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking an elected office in government. Politicians propose, support, reject and create laws that govern the land and by an extension of its people. Broadly speaking, a .... He was a member of the Senate of Finland. 1845 births 1917 deaths Politicians from Vyborg People from Viipuri Province (Grand Duchy of Finland) Finnish Party politicians Finnish senators Members of the Diet of Finland {{Finland-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martti Välikangas
Martti Välikangas (born Martti Buddén, August 1, 1893, County of Kuopio – May 9, 1973, Helsinki) was a Finnish architect renowned for the design of so-called "Puu-Käpylä" ood-Käpylä the Garden City housing area in Käpylä near Helsinki, designed in the Nordic Classicism style. Career Välikangas studied architecture at Helsinki University of Technology, qualifying as an architect in 1917. In 1921 he left on a study tour of Italy (as well as visiting the other Nordic countries, Germany, France and north Africa), a common practice at that time for architects in the Nordic countries who were turning away from National Romanticism. After qualifying Välikangas worked in Yuzovka in Russia (present-day Donetsk in the Ukraine), but had to leave in a hurry with the onset of the Bolshevik Revolution. On his return, he worked for the Brändö Villastad company as well as in the architect's office of Gösta Juslén and, from 1918 to 1920, in the office of Frost ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tauno Palo
Tauno Valdemar Palo (born Tauno Brännäs; 25 October 1908 – 24 May 1982) was a Finnish actor and singer in what some consider the golden age of Finnish cinema. In ''Guide to the Cinema of Sweden and Finland'' Peter von Bagh names Palo as the most renowned, the best-loved, and quite indisputably the greatest and the best actor of Finnish cinema. His skill to combine lightweight and youthful charm with heavyweight acting was seen most clearly in the theatre. His most famous roles were perhaps in ''Kulkurin valssi'' ("The Vagabond's Waltz"), and ''Vaimoke'' ("Surrogate Wife"). He appeared with actress/singer Birgit Kronström in the 1941 romantic comedy "Onnellinen ministeri" ("The Lucky Cabinet Minister"), which included the famous song "Katupoikien laulu", remade by other Finnish pop singers including Katri Helena. Life and career Palo was born in Hämeenlinna as Tauno Brännäs, but changed his name to Tauno Palo in 1935. He was of partial Russian descent through his moth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juhani Aho
Juhani Aho, originally Johannes Brofeldt (11 September 1861 – 8 August 1921), was a Finnish author and journalist. He was nominated for the Nobel prize in literature twelve times. Early life Juhani Aho was born at Lapinlahti in 1861. His parents were Henrik Gustaf Theodor Brofeldt and Karolina Fredrika Emelie "Emma" Brofeldt (née Snellman). The Brofeldts were a priestly family: Theodor was a relatively well-known revivalist preacher whose sermons were published in 1917 as ''Rovasti H. G. Th. Brofeldtin saarnoja'' and his father had been a chaplain and his grandfather a vicar. Juhani had two younger brothers Kaarlo Kustaa Brofeldt (1865–1936) and Petter Fredrik Brofeldt (1864–1945) who, following Juhani's example, adopted the Finnish names Kalle and Pekka as well as the surname Aho. From 1872 to 1880 Juhani Aho attended the Kuopion Lyseo, one of the few upper secondary schools offering education in Finnish. During his time at the school he adopted the pen name Juhani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aho (name)
Aho is a Finnish surname meaning "glade". Notable people with the surname include: * Alfred Aho (born 1941), Canadian computer scientist * Bill Aho (born 1957), American businessman * Esko Aho (born 1954), former prime minister of Finland * Heikki Aho (1895–1961), Finnish film director, of Ako & Soldan film production company * Heikki Aho (footballer) (born 1983), Finnish footballer * Joni Aho (born 1986), Finnish footballer * Juhana Aho (born 1993), Finnish ice hockey player * Juhani Aho (1861–1921), Finnish writer * Jussi Halla-aho (born 1983), Finnish politician * Kalevi Aho (born 1949), Finnish composer * Martti Johannes Aho (1896–1986), Finnish colonel * Ninos Aho (1945–2013), Assyrian poet and activist * Paavo Aho (1891–1918), Finnish athlete * Petri Aho, Finnish guitarist * Sebastian Aho (ice hockey, born 1997), Finnish ice hockey player * Sebastian Aho (ice hockey, born 1996), Swedish ice hockey player * Susan Aho (born 1974), Finnish singer-songwriter and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paloheimo
Paloheimo is a Finnish surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Eero Paloheimo (born 1936), Finnish artist and politician * Hjalmar Gabriel Paloheimo (1864–1919), Finnish industrialist and founder of the H. G. Paloheimo Oy company * Laura Paloheimo (born 1971), Finnish author * Maila Paloheimo (1910–1989), Finnish teacher and author *Oiva Paloheimo (1910–1973), Finnish author and poet *Veli Paloheimo Veli Paloheimo (born 13 December 1967) is a former professional tennis player from Finland. Career The right-hander reached his highest individual ranking on the ATP Tour on 1 October 1990, reaching World number 48. His best performance at a Gra ... (born 1967), Finnish tennis player {{surname Finnish-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eino Kilpi
Johan Eino Kilpi (7 June 1889, Uusikaupunki – 7 June 1963; original surname ''Blomros'') was a Finnish journalist and politician. He served as Minister of Social Affairs from 17 April 1945 to 26 March 1946, Minister of Education from 26 March 1946 to 26 May 1946 and Minister of the Interior from 26 May to 29 July 1948. He was a member of the Parliament of Finland, representing the Social Democratic Party of Finland (SDP) from 1930 to 1933 and the Finnish People's Democratic League Finnish People's Democratic League ( fi, Suomen Kansan Demokraattinen Liitto, SKDL; sv, Demokratiska Förbundet för Finlands Folk, DFFF) was a Finnish political organisation with the aim of uniting those left of the Finnish Social Democratic Pa ... (SKDL) from 1948 to 1962. He was the candidate of the SKDL in the presidential elections of 1956, getting 18.7% of the vote. He was married to Sylvi-Kyllikki Kilpi. References 1889 births 1963 deaths People from Uusikaupunki People from Turku a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artur Wuorimaa
Artur Oliver Wuorimaa (1 August 1854, Dragsfjärd - 9 November 1921; surname until 1906 ''Blomberg'') was a Finnish Lutheran clergyman and politician. He was a member of the Diet of Finland in 1897 and of the Parliament of Finland from 1907 to 1910 and from 1911 to 1913, representing the Finnish Party The Finnish Party ( fi, Suomalainen Puolue) was a Fennoman conservative political party in the autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland and independent Finland. Born out of Finland's language strife in the 1860s, the party sought to improve the position ... and again from 1917 to 1921, representing the Agrarian League. References 1854 births 1921 deaths People from Kimitoön People from Turku and Pori Province (Grand Duchy of Finland) 20th-century Finnish Lutheran clergy Finnish Party politicians Centre Party (Finland) politicians Members of the Diet of Finland Members of the Parliament of Finland (1907–08) Members of the Parliament of Finland (1908–09) Members of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aarne Wuorimaa
Aarne Artur Wuorimaa (last name ''Blomberg'' until 1906), (8 February 1892 Leivonmäki - 5 July 1975, Helsinki) was a Finnish diplomat who served as the Finnish Ambassador to Nazi Germany in the 1930s. The parents of Wuorimaa were parish priest, MP Arthur Oliver Wuorimaa and Anna Emilia Fabritius. He graduated in 1910 and graduated as a Bachelor of Philosophy and Master's degree in 1916. Wuorimaa served as Air Force Adviser in 1918-1919, Consul General of Finland in London in 1919 and Representative of the Finnish Government at the Red Cross in the United States in 1920-1921. He was then Assistant to the Mission in Paris from 1921 to 1922, serving in the Secretary General's office in the League of Nations in 1923-1925 and as Secretary of State in Paris between 1925 and 1928. Wuorimaa was Finland's Envoy in Tallinn from 1928 to 1933, in Berlin from 1933 to 1940, in Budapest and in Sofia from 1940 to 1944, and later was transferred to non-active status and retired from the po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
