Aleksis Kivi

Aleksis Kivi was born Alexis Stenvall on 10 October 1834 at Palojoki, in the parish of Nurmijärvi, the fourth child of the village tailor Erik Johan Stenvall. He left to study in Helsinki in 1846, where he knew hunger, completed his secondary studies late and entered the university in 1859. He then lived by his pen, in poverty, helped by Charlotta Lönnqvist, who housed him at Siuntio. Committed in 1871 to the Lapinlahti asylum, discharged as incurable the following year, he died in his brother's cottage at Tuusula on 31 December 1872.

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• NovelSeven BrothersSeitsemän veljestäAleksis Kivi · 1870LiteraturePublic domain