''Kaarlo'' Verner Wirilander (14 August 1908 in

Mikkeli Mikkeli (; sv, S:t Michel; la, Michaelia) is a town and municipality in Finland. It is located in what used to be the province of Eastern Finland and is part of the Etelä-Savo region. The municipality has a population of () (around 34, ...

– 16 October 1988 in Mikkeli), was a Finnish

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the st ...

. Wirilander was 1935–1958 an official at the Finnish war archives. Wirilander's research on

social history Social history, often called the new social history, is a field of history that looks at the lived experience of the past. In its "golden age" it was a major growth field in the 1960s and 1970s among scholars, and still is well represented in his ...

is considered as of high standard. He was a student of

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and published works on the officer corps and the estates in whole. Wirilander belonged to the editorial staff for the great economic and social work ''Suomen kulttuurihistoria'', together with

Eino Jutikkala Eino Kaarlo Ilmari Jutikkala (24 October 1907 – 22 December 2006), until 1931 Rinne, was a Finnish historian, and professor of history at the University of Helsinki from 1950 to 1974. He had an exceptionally long and prolific career, and is cons ...

and Heikki Waris. Kaarlo Wirilander's publications is often consulted by

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Bibliography

* ''Suomen upseeristo 1700-luvulla'' (1950) * ''Savon historia, III'' (1960) * ''Herrasväkeä'' ()

References

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