Aurora Society was a

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and a national

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at the

Royal Academy of Turku The Royal Academy of Turku or the Royal Academy of Åbo ( sv, Kungliga Akademin i Åbo or ; la, Regia Academia Aboensis; fi, Turun akatemia) was the first university in Finland, and the only Finnish university that was founded when the country ...

from 1770 to 1779. The Society consisted of many prominent members of the Finnish cultural sphere and had as its focal points poetry, Finnish history, geography and the research of language and economy. The Society published Finland's first newspaper, ''Åbo Tidningar (Tidningar Utgifne Af et Sällskap i Åbo)'', between the years 1771 to 1778, and 1782 to 1785. Furthermore, the first public orchestra concerts in Finland were also organized by the Aurora Society. The society was a typical product of the Enlightenment period: a secret society on one hand and a cultural and educational organization on the other

Members

Henrik Gabriel Porthan Henrik Gabriel Porthan (1739 in Viitasaari – 1804 in Turku) was a professor and rector at the Royal Academy of Turku. He was a scholar sometimes known as ''The Father of Finnish History''. Biography He was born at Viitasaari in Tavastland, ...

* Johan Lilius * Abraham Niklas Edelcrantz * Matthias Calonius *Carl Fredrik Fredenheim * Magnus Jacob Alopaeus

References

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*Musical life in Finland in the 17th and 18th centuries, http://www.fimic.fi/fimic/fimic.nsf/mainframe?readform&B3DDE16ED09DFD88C22567F40043EAE9 *Henrik Gabriel Porthan, http://www.finnica.fi/centralfinland/whatislike/porthanesittely.htm * :fi:Aurora-seura *Article in

kansallisbiografia ''Suomen kansallisbiografia'' ( en, The National Biography of Finland) is a collection of more than 6,000 biographies A biography, or simply bio, is a detailed description of a person's life. It involves more than just the basic facts like e ...

, https://web.archive.org/web/20080509051529/http://artikkelihaku.kansallisbiografia.fi/artikkeli/2599/ *A concise history of Finland By D. G. Kirby, *A History of Finland's Literature By George C. Schoolfield,

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