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Elias Lönnrot (1802–1884)
Lönnrot, Elias (lėn’rōt). A Finnish philologist; born at Sammatti, in Nyland, April 9, 1802; died there, March 19, 1884. Recognizing the value of the people’s songs and ballads for Finnish language-study, he spent years in collecting such material in Finland, Lapland, and adjoining provinces, which he pieced together in the great epic ‘Kalevala’ (1835). He wrote a ‘Finnish-Swedish Dictionary’ (2 vols., 1866–80).