Agathon Meurman (9 October 1826,

Kangasala Kangasala is a city in Finland which is situated about 16 kilometres East of Tampere. The city was founded in 1865 and had a population of people as of . Kangasala covers an area of of which is water. The population density is . Finnish auth ...

– 17 January 1909,

Helsinki Helsinki ( or ; ; sv, Helsingfors, ) is the Capital city, capital, primate city, primate, and List of cities and towns in Finland, most populous city of Finland. Located on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, it is the seat of the region of U ...

)Agathon Meurman
– Agathon Meurmanin sukuseura (in Finnish) was a Finnish politician and journalist. He was one of the key persons of the Fennoman movement and since 1863 the leader of the Finnish Party together with

Yrjö Sakari Yrjö-Koskinen Baron Yrjö Sakari Yrjö-Koskinen (birth name Georg Zakarias Forsman, author name Yrjö Koskinen; 10 December 1830 in Vaasa – 13 November 1903 in Helsinki) was a friherre, senator, professor, historian, politician and the chairman of the Finnis ...

.Meurman, Agathon (1826 - 1909)
Finnish National Biography. Retrieved 7 May 2016. In 1883–1890 Meurman published the first Finnish language encyclopaedia ''Sanakirja yleiseen sivistykseen kuuluvia tietoja varten''. It was mostly based on the German '' Meyers Encyclopedia''.

Selected works

*''Finnish–French Dictionary'' (1877) *''Sanakirja yleiseen sivistykseen kuuluvia tietoja varten'' (1883–1890) *''Finnish-Russian Dictionary'' (1885) *''Memoirs'' (1909)

References

1826 births 1909 deaths People from Kangasala Swedish-speaking Finns Finnish people of Swedish descent Finnish Party politicians Members of the Diet of Finland Encyclopedists Finnish journalists Finnish lexicographers Finnish writers University of Helsinki alumni 19th-century Finnish people 19th-century lexicographers {{Finland-politician-stub