Elias Lönnrot
Elias Lönnrot (; 9 April 1802 – 19 March 1884) was a
Finnish polymath, physician, philosopher, poet, musician, linguist, journalist,
philologist and collector of traditional
Finnish oral poetry. He is best known for synthesizing the Finnish national epic, ''
Kalevala''
(1835, enlarged 1849) from short
ballads and
lyric poems he gathered from
Finnish oral tradition during several field expeditions in Finland,
Russian Karelia, the
Kola Peninsula and Baltic countries.
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