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Olga Maria ('Olly') Donner ( Sinebrychoff; 28 September 1881 — 22 September 1956) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish writer and anthroposopher, known also by her
Olly and Uno Donner
on the Donner Institute website {{DEFAULTSORT:Donner, Olly Finnish women writers Anthroposophists 1881 births 1956 deaths Swedish-speaking Finns
Olga Maria ('Olly') Donner ( Sinebrychoff; 28 September 1881 — 22 September 1956) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish writer and anthroposopher, known also by her pen name
A pen name, also called a ''nom de plume'' or a literary double, is a pseudonym (or, in some cases, a variant form of a real name) adopted by an author and printed on the title page or by-line of their works in place of their real name.
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Jean Bray.
Biography
She was born to an upper-class family, as the only child of the industrialist and his wife Anna Nordenstam. She later married the industrialist . The couple were personal friends withRudolf Steiner
Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner (27 or 25 February 1861 – 30 March 1925) was an Austrian occultist, social reformer, architect, esotericist, and claimed clairvoyant. Steiner gained initial recognition at the end of the nineteenth century as a ...
, the founder of the anthroposophy movement. Olly Donner was educated in different schools in Europe, and was fluent, besides her native Swedish, also in French, German, English and Russian.
She wrote in Swedish and French, releasing 30 books, including novels, and collections of short stories and poetry. Her books were not widely read or well understood in her time, and although published by major publishers such as Bonnier and Söderström, she had to mostly cover the publishing costs herself.
An endowment, and later will
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Common meanings
* Will and testament, instructions for the disposition of one's property after death
* Will (philosophy), or willpower
* Will (sociology)
* Will, volition (psychology)
* Will, a modal verb - see Shall and will
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, left by Olly and Uno Donner established the Donner Institute for Research into Religion and Culture, a private research institute and library collection which are today affiliated with the Ã…bo Akademi University
Ã…bo Akademi University ( sv, Ã…bo Akademi , ) is the only exclusively Swedish language multi-faculty university in Finland (or anywhere outside Sweden). It is located mainly in Turku (Ã…bo is the Swedish name of the city) but has also activiti ...
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References
Further reading
*Westerlund, Jasmine: ''Olly Donnerin kiehtova elämä'' (in Finnish; 'The fascinating life of Olly Donner'), WSOY, Helsinki (2022)External links
Olly and Uno Donner
on the Donner Institute website {{DEFAULTSORT:Donner, Olly Finnish women writers Anthroposophists 1881 births 1956 deaths Swedish-speaking Finns