# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/elias-lonnrot
# Generated: 2026-09-01T09:21:11.635Z

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name: "Elias Lönnrot"
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description: "He stitched together fragments of Finnish oral poetry into a national epic that gave a language its mythos. Lönnrot traveled Karelia and the Kola Peninsula collecting ballads most Finns had never written down, then wove them into the Kalevala — the book that made Finland legible to itself."
tagline: "Finnish physician, philologist and collector of traditional Finnish oral poetry (1802-1884)"
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deathDate: "1884-03-19"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in 1802, Lönnrot trained as a physician but spent his sharpest energy on language, folklore, and the scattered songs of rural Finland. He made repeated field trips into remote villages and across the Russian border, notebook in hand, recording the runo-singers who still knew the old poems. In 1835 he published the first Kalevala, then expanded it in 1849 — a synthetic epic built from oral shards, but one that became the cornerstone of Finnish national identity. Years later he turned to botany and wrote Flora Fennica in 1860, the first scientific work in Finnish instead of Latin. He died in 1884, having spent a life turning the unwritten into canon.