Carl Wilhelm Westerlund (1809-1879),Biografiskt lexikon för Finland 2. Ryska tiden (2009). was a Finnish stage actor and theatre director. He played in important role in Finnish theater history and managed his own (Swedish language) travelling theatre company in 1830-45, which was at the time the leading theater company in Finland, being the only theater company permanently staged in Finland, which was otherwise dominated by theater companies on temporary tours from Sweden. He was married to

Maria Silfvan Maria Elisabeth Silfvan, as married Lempke and then Westerlund, in Swedish called Maria Sylvan, (25 March 1802 in Turku – 10 September 1865 in Oulu), was a Finnish actor, among the first professional native actors in Finland. Life Maria Sil ...

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1809 births 1879 deaths 19th-century Finnish male actors 19th-century theatre managers {{Finland-actor-stub