Lönnrot, Elias (ĕlē`äs lön`r
t), 1802–84, Finnish philologist, compiler of the Kalevala Kalevala (kä`lĕvä'lä), Finnish national epic.
..... Click the link for more information. . Although he was trained as a physician, he spent his life, after 1828, traveling through Finland, Lapland, and NW Russia, collecting fragments of the Kalevala from the rune singers. Of these he published in 1835 about 12,000 lines. A second edition of nearly 23,000 lines appeared in 1849. To Lönnrot must go the credit of creating a national epic from the scattered fragments sung or recited.
t), 1802–84, Finnish philologist, compiler of the Kalevala Kalevala (kä`lĕvä'lä), Finnish national epic...... Click the link for more information. . Although he was trained as a physician, he spent his life, after 1828, traveling through Finland, Lapland, and NW Russia, collecting fragments of the Kalevala from the rune singers. Of these he published in 1835 about 12,000 lines. A second edition of nearly 23,000 lines appeared in 1849. To Lönnrot must go the credit of creating a national epic from the scattered fragments sung or recited.
Lönnrot, Elias
(born April 9, 1802, Sammatti, Swedish Finland—died March 19, 1884, Sammatti, Russian Finland) Finnish folklorist and philologist. While serving as a medical officer for 20 years in a remote part of eastern Finland, Lönnrot collected linguistic information and folk poetry from the region's inhabitants. Believing that the short poems were fragments of a continuous epic, he added connective material of his own and assembled them into the Kalevala (1835, enlarged 1849), which became the Finnish national epic. He also published Old Songs and Ballads of the Finnish People (1840–41) and other collections.
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