Author · Finland
Arvid Järnefelt
Died in 1932
Arvid Järnefelt was born on 16 November 1861 in Pulkovo, near Saint Petersburg, the son of General Alexander Järnefelt and Elisabeth Clodt von Jürgensburg, whose Helsinki salon was the cradle of Finnish-language realism. Admitted as a lawyer in 1890, he had founded the newspaper Päivälehti the year before with Eero Erkko and Juhani Aho. Converted to Tolstoy's thought, he left the law to farm the land at Lohja. In 1917, despite the clergy, he preached reconciliation in churches in Helsinki. President of the Finnish PEN in 1928, he died in Helsinki on 27 December 1932.
In the catalogue 1
- NovelGreeta ja hänen HerransaArvid Järnefelt · 1925not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain