#Finnish name mauno series

#Finnish name mauno series

Henrik Gabriel Porthan, the most influential of all professors in Turku, gave in his dissertation series “De poësi fennica” (“About Finnish Poetry”, 1766–78) the first general presentation of Finnish folk poetry. It points forward to the interest in Finnish folk poetry that came a few generations later. The first Finnish collection of poems, Gabriel Calamnius’ “Wähäinen Cocous Suomalaisista runoista” (“A small collection of Finnish poems”, 1755), consists of occasional poems on the runometer. It was first used by Matthias Salamnius in a two thousand verse long “Ilo-Laulu Iesuxesta” (‘Joyful Song of Jesus’, 1690). Towards the end of the century, writers writing on the runometer appeared, a verse that had previously been suppressed as a pagan. The most significant of the Turkic poets was Jacob Frese.įinnish-language poets wrote religious poetry in the 17th century. His epic poem in Greek about Finland (1679) is a precursor to 19th century patriotic poetry. Johan Paulinus (adlad Lillienstedt) wrote Baroque-style poems. Teachers and students wrote occasional poetry, mostly tributes in Latin in connection with disputations, but also in Swedish. The Swedish-language literature gained a boost after the arrival of the Turku (old) academy in 1640. His most important scientific work, “Physica” (1611, first printed in 1952) – the first of its kind in Swedish – concludes with a 23 strophe-long “Låf song” for the natural phenomena and the Creator. He was an astronomer, philosopher of nature, priest and translator. The first significant Finnish writer to write in Swedish was Sigfrid Aron Forsius. Finno also published the first Finnish hymn book (c. The collection was translated into Finnish by Hemmingius Henrici in 1616. In 1582 Jacobus Finno edited a collection of “pious songs”, “Piae cantiones” Of the 74 songs, many have obviously been written in Finland. His Western Finnish dialect became the determining language for Finnish writing. In the preface to the Psalter he described in the verses the ancient religious conceptions of the Finns. 1540), which in the company contains the first Finnish poem with final rhyme, and continued with a Finnish prayer book (1544) and handbooks on baptism and the Mass. He started with an “Abckiria” (“ABC book”, c. Michael Agricola was the first to write and publish books in Finnish. Countryaah: Population and demographics of Finland, including population pyramid, density map, projection, data, and distribution.The monk Jöns Budde or Räk (Räck) frequently translated Latin texts into Swedish. The Latin Saint Henry legend of the 13th century is the oldest known literary text from Finland “Missale Aboense” (1488) contains some fair texts in Finnish. Up to the major victims (1713-21), 60% of the books were in Latin, 30% in Swedish and 10% in Finnish.

The literature of Finland is written in three languages: Latin, Swedish and Finnish.