Elias Lönnrot, Finnish physician and philologist (died 1884)

Elias Lönnrot

Finnish polymath and poet (1802–1884)

Elias Lönnrot 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 from short ballads and lyric poems he gathered…