Herman Daniel Paul (17 July 1827 in Schwedt an der Oder, Brandenburg, Germany - 4 December 1885 Helsinki) was a German-born musician and lecturer in German at the University of Helsinki, who translated the '' Kalevala'' into German, among other works.

Life

Paul's father was a government councilor, Johann Paul, and his mother was Dorothea Paul. He attended high school in Berlin, studied music, and then held various positions in music, circling the violin countries of the Baltic Sea region from 1858 to 1862. Paul moved to Helsinki in 1859, founded a music store there in 1862 and worked as a concert reviewer. He was an adjunct professor of German at the University of Helsinki from 1869 to 1885 and taught German and Russian at various educational institutions in Helsinki. Paul also served as a regular critic of the '' Hufvudstadsbladet'' from 1865 to 1878. In 1884 he received the title of Fellow Counselor. Paul's translation of the ''Kalevala'' from Swedish into German appeared between 1885 and 1886 under the title ''Kalevala, das Volksepos der Finnen'', a preference for Schiefner's earlier translation. The poem's length in the translation differs slightly from the Finnish poems. He also translated

Johan Ludvig Runeberg Johan Ludvig Runeberg (; 5 February 1804 – 6 May 1877) was a Finnish priest, lyric and epic poet. He wrote exclusively in Swedish. He is considered a national poet of Finland. He is the author of the lyrics to (''Our Land'', ''Maamme'' in Fin ...

's play ''The Kings of Salami'' and Zacharias Topelius' ''Travel in Finland''. The Finnish poetry he translated included ''Finnische Dichtungen'' (1866) and ''Aus dem Norden'' (1887). He also prepared German grammar and reading exercises for schools, of which Yrjö Sakari Yrjö-Koskinen produced Finnish versions. In the winter of 1859, Paul's trip to Lapland and his diary during his trip were published in the 1860 Papperslyktan weekly under the name ''Slädparti till Lappland, blad ur min dagbok''. He also made pencil drawings of his journey. Paul was married to Evelina Lovisa Albertina Bonsdorff (d. 1909) since 1861, and had four children.

Works

* Kalevala (translator) * From the North (translator, ethnographer)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Paul, Herman Daniel 1827 births 1885 deaths Academic staff of the University of Helsinki 19th-century German musicians German emigrants to Finland