Baron
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Yrjö Sakari Yrjö-Koskinen (birth name Georg Zakarias Forsman, author name Yrjö Koskinen; 10 December 1830 in
Vaasa
Vaasa (; , ), formerly (1855-1917) known as Nikolaistad (; ),[Helsinki
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) was a
friherre
(; male, abbreviated as ), (; his wife, abbreviated as , ) and (, his unmarried daughters and maiden aunts) are designations used as titles of nobility in the German-speaking areas of the Holy Roman Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire and in i ...
,
senator
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,
professor
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,
historian
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, politician and the
chairman
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of the
Finnish Party
The Finnish Party () was a Fennoman conservative political party in the autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland and independent Finland. Born out of Finland's language strife in the 1860s, the party sought to improve the position of the Finnish langu ...
after
Johan Vilhelm Snellman
Johan Vilhelm Snellman (; 12 May 1806 – 4 July 1881) was an influential Fennoman philosopher and Finnish statesman, ennobled in 1866. He was one of the most important 'awakeners' or promoters of Finnish nationalism, alongside Elias Lönnr ...
. He was a central figure in the
fennoman
The Fennoman movement or Fennomania was a Finnish nationalist movement in the 19th-century Grand Duchy of Finland, built on the work of the ''fennophile'' interests of the 18th and early-19th centuries.
History
After the Crimean War, Fennoman ...
movement. His original name was Georg Zakarias Forsman and his family from his father's side originated from
Sweden
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. He later
fennicized his name to Yrjö Sakari Yrjö-Koskinen. He was the husband of Finland's first female author,
Theodolinda Hahnsson.
He is buried in the
Hietaniemi Cemetery
The Hietaniemi cemetery (, ) is located mainly in the Lapinlahti quarter and partly in the Etu-Töölö district of Helsinki, the capital of Finland. It is the location for Finnish state funeral services and is owned by the Evangelical Luthe ...
in Helsinki.
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Yrjö Koskinen in 375 humanists 28.1.2015, Faculty of Arts, University of Helsinki
1830 births
1903 deaths
Historians from the Russian Empire
People from Vaasa
Politicians from Vaasa Province (Grand Duchy of Finland)
Swedish-speaking Finns
Finnish people of Swedish descent
19th-century Finnish nobility
Finnish Party politicians
Finnish senators
Members of the Diet of Finland
19th-century Finnish historians
University of Helsinki alumni
19th-century Finnish politicians
Burials at Hietaniemi Cemetery
Barons of the Russian Empire
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