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Zilliacus
Zilliacus is a Finland-Swedish surname that may refer to * Benedict Zilliacus (born 1921), Finnish journalist, author, scriptwriter and translator * Bruno Zilliacus (1877–1926), Finnish athlete * Jutta Zilliacus (born 1925), Finnish-born Estonian journalist, author and ex-member of parliament * Konni Zilliacus (senior) (1855–1924), Finnish politician, author and independence activist * Konni Zilliacus Konni Zilliacus (13 September 1894 – 6 July 1967) was the Member of Parliament for Gateshead from 1945 until 1950, and for Manchester Gorton from 1955 until his death. He was a left-wing Labour Party politician. Zilliacus spoke nine lan ... (1894–1967), Finnish-born British member of parliament * Tobias Zilliacus (born 1971), Finnish actor * Thomas Zilliacus (born 1954), Finnish businessman * Linda Zilliacus (born 1977 as Linda Gyllenberg), Finnish actress {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Konni Zilliacus
Konni Zilliacus (13 September 1894 – 6 July 1967) was the Member of Parliament for Gateshead from 1945 until 1950, and for Manchester Gorton from 1955 until his death. He was a left-wing Labour Party politician. Zilliacus spoke nine languages fluently and international issues absorbed much of his energy, both as an official of the League of Nations between the wars, and as a member of the House of Commons in the post-war period. He was widely considered to have had communist sympathies, this led him into conflict with the Labour Party leadership and in 1949 he was expelled from the party. In 1950 he lost his seat in parliament, he was re-admitted by Labour in 1952, and returned to the Commons in 1955. Zilliacus campaigned for less spending on weapons. He was a founder member of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and opposed the Vietnam War. His father was Konrad Viktor Zilliacus, a Finnish independence activist. Early life Zilliacus was born in Kobe, Japan, the son ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Zilliacus
Thomas Zilliacus (born 1954) is a Finnish businessman and philanthropist, residing in Singapore. Early life and education Thomas Zilliacus was born in Helsinki, Finland in 1954. His great-great-grandfather was senator Henrik Wilhelm Johan Zilliacus, who in 1866 was elected Mayor of Helsinki, while his great-granduncle was Konni Zilliacus, the founder of the Finnish Activist Resistance Party which sought to liberate Finland from Russia. His grand uncle, Per Zilliacus, served as the head of the Finnish Military Academy and the Commander of the Finnish Civil Guard. Zilliacus went to the ''Zilliacuska skolan'', the Swedish-language, private, co-educational school established by his grandfather's uncle Laurin Zilliacus. Upon graduating, in 1972, Zilliacus enrolled at the University of Helsinki, where he was the editor-in-chief of the national student paper ''Studentbladet'' and three times elected as chairman of the Student Union, as well as at the Hanken School of Economics. As ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruno Zilliacus
Bruno Wilhelm Zilliacus (11 November 1877 – 3 July 1926) was an athlete, who competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics. Sports He is also listed as a flag-bearer for Finland in the opening ceremony, although he carried a mere hand-written plaque. Zilliacus participated the 30-kilometer cross-country skiing race at the Northern Games in Stockholm 1901, where he did not place in the top 11. Zilliacus won the first beauty pageant in Finland, which was held in Helsinki on 8 March 1903. He represented the clubs Sortavalan Seminaarin Voimisteluseura (Sortavala) and Ylioppilasvoimistelijat (Helsinki). Other Born in Saint Petersburg in 1877, his parents were major Alexander Wilhelm Zilliacus and Sofia Vilhelmiina Manninen. He married Meri Naëmi Starck (1886–1974) in 1913, daughter of Werner Starck and Naëmi Ingman-Starck. They had children Margareta in 1914, Ulla in 1919 and Katarina in 1921. Ulla married Kaarlo af Heurlin in 1941. He graduated as a physical education teach ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Konni Zilliacus (senior)
Konrad Viktor Zilliacus (18 December 1855, in Helsinki – 19 June 1924, in Helsinki) was a Finnish independence activist involved in the Grafton Affair in 1905. Early life Zilliacus was born in Finland, then part of the Russian Empire. His parents was senator and the mayor of Helsinki Henrik Wilhelm Johan Zilliacus and Ida Charlotta Söderhjelm, daughter of the tax collector Johan Ulrik Söderhjelm. He studied law and then became a newspaper reporter, in which capacity he travelled the world, living for a period in Costa Rica, then in Chicago. He lived from 1894–1896 in Japan - when his son Konni Zilliacus was born in Kobe - followed by Egypt and Paris. He returned to Finland in 1898, and submitted a petition to Tsar Nicholas II in 1899 demanding a constitution. He subsequently relocated to Stockholm in Sweden in 1900, where he began to publish a newspaper ''Fria Ord'' ("Free Speech") which supported independence for Finland. Revolutionary activities As one of the early ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benedict Zilliacus
Emil Benedict Zilliacus (11 January 1921 – 28 January 2013) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish journalist, author, scriptwriter and translator. Zilliacus was born in Helsinki, Finland. He wrote screenplays for many movies, including '' Etulinjan edessä'' (Beyond the Front Line), which he wrote together with Stefan Forss. In the 1950s and 1960s, he wrote a revue A revue is a type of multi-act popular theatrical entertainment that combines music, dance, and sketches. The revue has its roots in 19th century popular entertainment and melodrama but grew into a substantial cultural presence of its own duri ... for the Swedish theater ''Lilla Teatern'' in Helsinki every other year, or sometimes more often; the show became very popular. Bibliography *''Bilderbok för stora barn'' (1951) *''Vi ser på Helsingfors'' (1952) *''Korsetten'' (1962) *''Wärtsilä'' (1967) *''Sex årtionden i pressbilder'' (1971) (with Hugo Sundström) *''Utöar'' (1975) *''Öar, holmar och skär'' (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jutta Zilliacus
Jutta Armelle Zilliacus (born 25 July 1925) is a Finnish-born ethnic Estonian journalist and author in the Swedish language. She was also a politician, and served as a Member of Parliament for the Swedish People's Party The Swedish People's Party of Finland ( sv, Svenska folkpartiet i Finland (SFP); fi, Suomen ruotsalainen kansanpuolue (RKP)) is a list of political parties in Finland, political party in Finland aiming to represent the interests of the minority ... for Helsinki from 1975 to 1986 and a member of the Helsinki City Council from 1968 to 1984. Books * Rökringar (1970) * Innan du vet ordet av (1975) * En bit av Det stora äpplet (1978) * Vägskäl (1986) * Annorlunda barndom (1986) * Vändpunkt (1987) * Gå över gränser (1991) * Balansgång (1994) * Ajatuksia verannalla (1997) * Underbart är kort (1997) * I väntan på buss nummer 16 (2002) References {{DEFAULTSORT:Zilliacus, Jutta 1925 births Living people Writers from Helsinki Finnish people of Es ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tobias Zilliacus
Lars Emil Tobias Zilliacus (born 30 September 1971) is a Swedish-speaking Finnish actor. He is best known of his role in the 2012 Swedish crime film Crime films, in the broadest sense, is a film genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and its detection. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine ... '' The Hypnotist''. In 2015, Zilliacus appeared in British TV series '' Fortitude''. Filmography References External links * 1971 births Living people Male actors from Helsinki Swedish-speaking Finns Finnish male film actors {{Finland-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |