Kari Valtteri Tarkiainen (born 14 June 1938 in

Helsinki Helsinki () is the Capital city, capital and most populous List of cities and towns in Finland, city in Finland. It is on the shore of the Gulf of Finland and is the seat of southern Finland's Uusimaa region. About people live in the municipali ...

) is a Finnish

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human species; as well as the ...

and archivist, who served as the national archivist of Finland 1996–2003. He is a grandson of the scholar Viljo Tarkiainen and his wife, writer Maria Jotuni. Tarkiainen has had a career in the world of archives both in Finland and

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. From 1971 he was employed in the Swedish National Archives in

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. He finished his career as archivist in Helsinki as chief of the National Archives of Finland 1996–2003. Tarkiainen became a

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in 1974 with a dissertation on the view of Russia in Sweden during the early great power era. He is a specialist in medieval history, and has formed the conception of the Finnish reformer

Mikael Agricola Mikael Agricola (; c. 1510 – 9 April 1557) was a Finnish Lutheran clergyman who became the de facto founder of literary Finnish and a prominent proponent of the Protestant Reformation in Sweden, including Finland, which was a Swedish territo ...

. Amongst his most important works are a history of Finnish migration to Sweden, ''Finnarnas historia i Sverige 1-2'' (1990–93), and ''Sveriges Österland från forntiden till

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'' (2008), which concerns the central issues of Finland's history, with special focus on the relations between Finnish and Swedish language, economy, settlement, church organisation, administration, and cultural forms. Tarkiainen has also written a biography of '' Paavo Haavikko, modernisternas furste'' (1997). Tarkiainen's wife (née Liitoja) is an Estonian historian.

Bibliography

* ''De ryska "nationalegenskaperna" enligt svensk uppfattning i början av 1600-talet'' (1973) * ''"Vår gamble arffiende ryssen". Synen på Ryssland i Sverige 1595-1621 och andra studier kring den svenska Rysslandsbilden från tidigare stormaktstid'' (1974) * ''Förvaringsmedel för arkivhandlingar'' (1975) * ''Sveriges pressarkiv idag'' (1978) * ''Finskt författningstryck från den svenska tiden'' (1980) * ''Porvoon piispa Magnus Jacob Alopaeus 1743-1818'' (1985) * ''Viljo Tarkiainen - suomalainen humanisti'' (1988) * ''Riksarkivet'' (1995) * ''Finnarnas historia i Sverige'' (3 volumes) (1990–1996) * ''Paavo Haavikko – modernisternas furste. Lyriken 1951–1966'' (1997) * ''Mitt, sa finnen om Stockholm'' (1997) * ''Sverige och Finland'' (2000) * ''Sveriges Österland från forntiden till Gustav Vasa'' (2008) * ''Provinsen bortom havet. Estlands svenska historia 1561–1710'' (2013)

References

* '' Uppslagsverket Finland'', 5 (2007) {{DEFAULTSORT:Tarkiainen, Kari 1938 births Living people Writers from Helsinki 20th-century Finnish historians Finnish archivists Recipients of the Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana, 5th Class Finnish expatriates in Sweden 21st-century Finnish historians