Ivar Grünthal

Ivar Grünthal was born in Tartu on 8 June 1924, the son of two lawyers and grandson of the statesman Jaan Poska; he spent his summers on Muhu. A pupil at the Hugo Treffner Gymnasium, he began medicine in Tartu in 1942, continued it in Helsinki in 1943 and in 1944 enlisted in the Finnish Infantry Regiment 200. A refugee in Sweden, he became a doctor there, settled in Gothenburg, founded the journal Mana in 1957 and edited it until 1965. Acting Minister of Social Affairs of the government in exile, he died in Gothenburg on 14 February 1996.

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• NovelPeetri kiriku kelladIvar Grünthal · 1962not translated into EnglishLiterature