Eino Leino

Armas Einar Leopold Lönnbohm, who took the name Eino Leino, was born in Paltamo on 6 July 1878, the son of the surveyor Anders Lönnbohm; his brother Kasimir Leino was already a figure in cultural life. A journalist, theatre critic and translator of Runeberg, of Goethe and, the first into Finnish, of the Divine Comedy, he published more than seventy books. He was married three times, including to the translator Freya Schoultz and then to the harpist Aino Kajanus. In debt and ill, he died in Tuusula on 10 January 1926, aged forty-seven.

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• PoetryWhitsongsHelkavirsiäEino Leino · 1916LiteraturePublic domain