Description:Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: People From Nykarleby, Zachris Topelius, Andrew Berg, Battle of Nykarleby, Battle of Jutas, Jeppo, Bengt Schalin, Gsta gren, St. Birgitta's Church. Excerpt: Zachris (Zacharias, Z., Sakari) Topelius (Swedish pronunciation: January 14, 1818 March 12, 1898) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish author, journalist, historian, and rector of the University of Helsinki who wrote novels related to Finnish history in Swedish. Zacharias is his baptismal name, and this is used on the covers of his printed works. However, "he himself most often used the abbreviation Z. or the form Zachris, even in official contexts," as explained in the National Biography of Finland. Zachris is therefore the preferred form used in recent academic literature about him. The original name of the Topelius family was the Finnish name Toppila which had been Latinized to Toppelius by the author's grandfather's grandfather and later changed to Topelius. Topelius was born at Kuddns, near Nykarleby in Ostrobothnia, the son of a physician of the same name (Zacharias Topelius the Elder), who was distinguished as the earliest collector of Finnish folk-songs. As a child he heard his mother, Katarina Sofia Calamnius, sing the songs of the Finnish-Swedish poet Franzn. At the age of eleven, he was sent to school in Oulu and boarded with relatives in the possession of a lending library, where he nurtured his fantasy with the reading of novels. He came to Helsinki in 1831 and became a member of the circle of young nationalist men surrounding Johan Ludvig Runeberg, in whose home he stayed for some time. Topelius became a student at the Imperial Alexander University of Finland in 1833, received his master's degree degree in 1840, the Licentiate degree in 1844 and was made a doctor of philosop... More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=34446We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Nykarleby: People from Nykarleby, Zachris Topelius, Andrew Berg, Battle of Nykarleby, Battle of Jutas, Jeppo, Bengt Schalin, Gsta Gren. To get started finding Nykarleby: People from Nykarleby, Zachris Topelius, Andrew Berg, Battle of Nykarleby, Battle of Jutas, Jeppo, Bengt Schalin, Gsta Gren, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
32
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Books LLC
Release
2010
ISBN
1157894976
Nykarleby: People from Nykarleby, Zachris Topelius, Andrew Berg, Battle of Nykarleby, Battle of Jutas, Jeppo, Bengt Schalin, Gsta Gren
Description: Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: People From Nykarleby, Zachris Topelius, Andrew Berg, Battle of Nykarleby, Battle of Jutas, Jeppo, Bengt Schalin, Gsta gren, St. Birgitta's Church. Excerpt: Zachris (Zacharias, Z., Sakari) Topelius (Swedish pronunciation: January 14, 1818 March 12, 1898) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish author, journalist, historian, and rector of the University of Helsinki who wrote novels related to Finnish history in Swedish. Zacharias is his baptismal name, and this is used on the covers of his printed works. However, "he himself most often used the abbreviation Z. or the form Zachris, even in official contexts," as explained in the National Biography of Finland. Zachris is therefore the preferred form used in recent academic literature about him. The original name of the Topelius family was the Finnish name Toppila which had been Latinized to Toppelius by the author's grandfather's grandfather and later changed to Topelius. Topelius was born at Kuddns, near Nykarleby in Ostrobothnia, the son of a physician of the same name (Zacharias Topelius the Elder), who was distinguished as the earliest collector of Finnish folk-songs. As a child he heard his mother, Katarina Sofia Calamnius, sing the songs of the Finnish-Swedish poet Franzn. At the age of eleven, he was sent to school in Oulu and boarded with relatives in the possession of a lending library, where he nurtured his fantasy with the reading of novels. He came to Helsinki in 1831 and became a member of the circle of young nationalist men surrounding Johan Ludvig Runeberg, in whose home he stayed for some time. Topelius became a student at the Imperial Alexander University of Finland in 1833, received his master's degree degree in 1840, the Licentiate degree in 1844 and was made a doctor of philosop... More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=34446We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Nykarleby: People from Nykarleby, Zachris Topelius, Andrew Berg, Battle of Nykarleby, Battle of Jutas, Jeppo, Bengt Schalin, Gsta Gren. To get started finding Nykarleby: People from Nykarleby, Zachris Topelius, Andrew Berg, Battle of Nykarleby, Battle of Jutas, Jeppo, Bengt Schalin, Gsta Gren, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.