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C. A. J. Gadolin
Carl Axel Johan Gadolin (14 November 1898 – 21 October 1972) was a Finnish doctor of philosophy and a writer in Swedish. He also used the pseudonyms Alexander Gaditz and Kristian Ulfsby. Gadolin was born in Espoo to professor Alexander Gadolin and Signe Adéle von Alfthan. He graduated in 1916 with a master's degree in philosophy in 1920 and a licentiate and doctorate in 1937. He married Ingrid Mary Anita Stackelberg on 30 July 1924, with whom he had three children: Bo Wolter Alexander, Ingegerd Rubia Anitra, and Innet Iza Helena. Gadolin was the secretary of the Turku Chamber of Commerce from 1924 to 1940, the director of the Turku Stock Exchange from 1924 to 1940, an associate professor at Åbo Akademi University from 1938 and the General Counsel of the Central Chamber of Commerce in 1940 and 1941. Gadolin was a member of the trade delegation in Germany and England in 1929, in Russia in 1934 and in Latvia in 1938. He was head of the German delegation to the Central Chamber of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Gadolin
Alexander Wilhelm Gadolin (8 July 1868 – 2 June 1939) was a Finnish legal scholar and politician. He was a member of the Diet of Finland in 1894 and from 1899 to 1906 and of the Parliament of Finland from 1913 to 1916, representing the Swedish People's Party of Finland (SFP). Alexander was born in Borgå landskommun (Porvoon maalaiskunta), Finland and he died on June 02 1939, Åbo (Turku Turku ( ; ; , ) is a city in Finland and the regional capital of Southwest Finland. It is located on the southwestern coast of the country at the mouth of the Aura River (Finland), River Aura. The population of Turku is approximately , while t ...), Finland. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Gadolin, Alexander 1868 births 1939 deaths People from Porvoo Politicians from Uusimaa Province (Grand Duchy of Finland) Swedish People's Party of Finland politicians Members of the Diet of Finland Members of the Parliament of Finland (1913–1916) Finnish legal scholars University of Helsinki alum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wahlström & Widstrand
Wahlström & Widstrand is a Swedish book publishing company. Wahlström & Widstrand was established in 1885 by two book sellers in Stockholm, Per Karl Wahlström and Wilhelm Widstrand. The company started publishing fiction in the 1890s and later also published non-fiction works, especially historical biographies. Foreign authors introduced by Wahlström & Widstrand to Swedish readers in the first half of the 20th century include Hermann Hesse, Thomas Mann, Joseph Conrad, Maxim Gorky and Henri Bergson as well as later authors such as Franz Kafka in the 1940s, William Styron in the 1950s and Joseph Heller in the 1960s. Numerous acclaimed Swedish writers have been discovered by the publishing house of Wahlström & Widstrand, and it has also published several Nobel Prize winners such as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Gabriel García Márquez, Derek Walcott, Wole Soyinka, Joseph Brodsky, José Saramago José de Sousa Saramago (; 16 November 1922 – 18 June 2010) was a Portuguese pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finnish Writers In Swedish
Finnish may refer to: * Something or someone from, or related to Finland * Culture of Finland * Finnish people or Finns, the primary ethnic group in Finland * Finnish language, the national language of the Finnish people * Finnish cuisine See also * Finish (other) * Finland (other) * Suomi (other) Suomi means ''Finland'' in Finnish. Suomi may also refer to: *Finnish language Finnish (endonym: or ) is a Finnic languages, Finnic language of the Uralic languages, Uralic language family, spoken by the majority of the population in Finla ... * {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1972 Deaths
Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using Solar time, mean solar time [the legal time scale], its duration was 31622401.141 seconds of Terrestrial Time (or Ephemeris Time), which is slightly shorter than 1908 in science#Astronomy, 1908). Events January * January 1 – Kurt Waldheim becomes Secretary-General of the United Nations. * January 4 – The first scientific hand-held calculator (HP-35) is introduced (price $395). * January 7 – Iberia Airlines Flight 602 crashes into a 462-meter peak on the island of Ibiza; 104 are killed. * January 9 – The RMS Queen Elizabeth, RMS ''Queen Elizabeth'' catches fire and sinks in Hong Kong's Victoria harbor while undergoing conversion to a floating university. * January 10 – Independence leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returns to Bangladesh after s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1898 Births
Events January * January 1 – New York City annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York as the world's second largest. The city is geographically divided into five boroughs: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx and Staten Island. * January 13 – Novelist Émile Zola's open letter to the President of the French Republic on the Dreyfus affair, , is published on the front page of the Paris daily newspaper , accusing the government of wrongfully imprisoning Alfred Dreyfus and of antisemitism. February * February 12 – The automobile belonging to Henry Lindfield of Brighton rolls out of control down a hill in Purley, London, England, and hits a tree; thus he becomes the world's first fatality from an automobile accident on a public highway. * February 15 – Spanish–American War: The explodes and sinks in Havana Harbor, Cuba, for reasons never fully established, killing 266 men. The event precipitates the United States' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harriet Percy
Harriet(t) may refer to: * Harriet (name), a female name ''(includes list of people with the name)'' Places *Harriet, Queensland, rural locality in Australia * Harriet, Arkansas, unincorporated community in the United States * Harriett, Texas, unincorporated community in the United States Ships * ''Harriet'' (1798 ship), built at Pictou Shipyard, Nova Scotia, Canada * ''Harriet'' (1802 EIC ship), East India Company ship * ''Harriet'' (1810 ship), American ship * ''Harriet'' (1813 ship), American ship * ''Harriet'' (1829 ship), British Royal Navy ship * ''Harriet'' (1836 ship), British ship * ''Harriet'' (fishing smack), 1893 British trawler preserved in Fleetwood Museum Other * Harriet (band), an alternative Americana band from Los Angeles * ''Harriet'' (film), a 2019 biographical film about Harriet Tubman * Harriet (novel), a 1976 romance by Jilly Cooper * Harriet (play), 1943 American play * ''Harriet the Spy'' (TV series), a 2021 animated TV series * Harriet (tortoise), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akateeminen Kirjakauppa
The Academic Bookstore ( Finnish: , Swedish: ) is a Finnish chain of bookstores. It has both physical outlets as well as an online presence. Stockmann sold the chain in 2015 to Bonnier Group. Originally founded as an independent chain, it was bought out by Stockmann in 1930. Its revenue in 2015 was about 40 million euros. History The Academic Bookstore was founded in 1893. Its founders included and . Its goal was "to serve equally the needs of researchers and the general public, and which, fairly looking after the interests of domestic publishing, working to establish faster and more secure links with the foreign book market". The first store was located on Aleksanterinkatu in Helsinki. In 1901 the bookstore moved to a new location on the same street, enabling it to sell 1200 titles simultaneously. Another move was made in 1910. Stockmann bought the Academic Bookstore in 1930. The new owner soon moved it to the new Stockmann department store at Helsinki centre. In 1969 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schildts
Schildts Förlags Ab was a Swedish-language book publisher in Finland. The publisher published textbooks as well as fiction and non-fiction. The head office was in Helsinki and there was a branch located in Vaasa. The publisher was owned by Svenska Folkskolans Vänner. On 1 February 2012, Schildts and Söderströms merged into one publishing house, Schildts & Söderströms. After an apprenticeship at his uncle's bookstore, founded a publishing house in Porvoo in 1913, which was reorganized into Holger Schildts Förlags AB in 1919. In 1991, the publishing house merged with Editum, which published textbooks. Among the publisher's fiction writers, Tove Jansson is internationally known; her '' Moomin'' series was published by the company. Since 1987 it has also published Finnish-language literature, mainly translations but also original Finnish titles later on. A Finnish editorial office was established in 1996. Schildts was a partner in and in Sweden. The publisher's annual o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stackelberg
__NOTOC__ Stackelberg is a surname, mainly known as the surname of a noble family of Baltic German descent (see Stackelberg family). Notable people with the surname include: A *Adolphe Stackelberg (1822–1871), Swedish count and Christian revivalist *Aleksandr Stackelberg (1897–1975), Russian entomologist B *Berndt Otto Stackelberg (1662–1734), Swedish Field Marshal * (1777–1841), Swedish Field Marshal C * (1777–1841), Baltic German, second husband of Josephine Brunsvik E *Eduard von Stackelberg (1867–1943), Baltic German in Estonia chemist, landowner and politician *Ernst von Stackelberg (1813–1870), Baltic German serving as a Russian military figure and diplomat F *Fritz Stackelberg (1899–1988), Swedish diplomat G *Garnett Stackelberg (1910–2005), US journalist and socialite *Georg von Stackelberg (1851–1913), Baltic German serving as a Russian Cavalry General *Gustav Ernst von Stackelberg (1766–1850), Baltic German serving as a Russian ambassado ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kauppalehti
''Kauppalehti'' () is a commerce-oriented newspaper published in Helsinki, Finland. The paper has been in circulation since 1898. History and profile ''Kauppalehti'' was established by the Finnish Businessmen's Association in 1898. Since 1919 the paper is published five or six times per week. ''Kauppalehti'' is owned by the Business Information Group of Alma Media and is based in Helsinki. The sister papers of ''Kauppalehti'' are '' Iltalehti'' and ''Aamulehti''. Their publisher is the Kustannus Oy Kauppalehti, and ''Kauppalehti'' is published in tabloid format. In 2002 ''Kauppalehti'' began to offer a supplement, ''Saldo'', together with the magazine '' Tekniikka ja Talous''. The paper published a Saturday supplement, '' Presso'', from October 2004 to December 2007. ''Kauppalehti'' is the first Finnish newspaper which launched paywall A paywall is a method of restricting access to content (media), content, with a purchase or a subscription business model, paid subscripti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
