Runeberg, Johan Ludwig (18041877)

Runeberg, Johan Ludwig, the national poet of Finland, born at Jacobstad; educated at, and afterwards lectured in, the university of Abo; published his first volume, “Lyric Poems,” in 1830; edited a bi-weekly paper; for forty years (till his death) was Reader of Roman Literature in the College of Borga; his epic idylls, “The Elk Hunters,” “Christmas Eve,” his epic “King Fjalar,” &c., are the finest poems in the Swedish language; are characterised by a repose, simplicity, and artistic finish, yet have withal the warmth of national life in them (18041877).

Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)

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Rule of Faith
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Rumford, Count
Rump, The
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Runeberg, Johan Ludwig
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Rupert, Prince
Rupert's Land
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