Martti Henrikki Haavio (22 January 1899 – 4 February 1973) was a Finnish poet, folklorist and mythologist, writing poetry under the

pen name A pen name or nom-de-plume is a pseudonym (or, in some cases, a variant form of a real name) adopted by an author and printed on the title page or by-line of their works in place of their real name. A pen name may be used to make the author's na ...

P. Mustapää. He was born on 22 January 1899 in Temmes, and died on 4 February 1973 in Helsinki. He was also a professor of folklore and an influential researcher of

Finnish mythology Finnish mythology commonly refers of the folklore of Finnish paganism, of which a Finnish Neopaganism, modern revival is practiced by a small percentage of the Finnish people. It has many shared features with Estonian mythology, Estonian and othe ...

. In 1960, Haavio married

Aale Tynni Aale Maria Tynni-Haavio (3 October 1913 – 21 October 1997) was a Finnish poet and translator. She is best known for editing and translating European poetry ranging from the Middle Ages into Finnish in a comprehensive anthology entitled ...

, after his first wife Elsa Enäjärvi-Haavio died in 1951 of cancer. His daughter, Elina Haavio-Mannila, is a social scientist. During Haavio's early career, he was a member of the

Tulenkantajat Tulenkantajat (″The Flame Bearers″) was a literary group in Finland during the 1920s. Their main task was to find a way to take Finland from so-called backwoods culture to the new, modern European level of literature. They did not consider th ...

literature club. He is buried in the

Hietaniemi Cemetery The Hietaniemi cemetery (, ) is located mainly in the Lapinlahti quarter and partly in the Etu-Töölö district of Helsinki, the capital of Finland. It is the location for Finnish state funeral services and is owned by the Evangelical Luthe ...

in Helsinki.

Folkloristical and mythological works

* ''Suomalaisen muinaisrunouden maailma''. Porvoo: WSOY, 1935. * ''Suomalaiset kodinhaltiat''. Porvoo: WSOY, 1942. * ''Viimeiset runonlaulajat''. Third edition (second edition 1948). Porvoo: WSOY, 1985. . * ''Piispa Henrik ja Lalli: Piispa Henrikin surmavirren historiaa''. Porvoo: WSOY, 1948. * ''Sampo-eepos: Typologinen analyysi''. A doctoral dissertation. Suomalais-ugrilaisen seuran toimituksia 96. Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, 1949. * ''Väinämöinen: Suomalaisten runojen keskushahmo''. Porvoo: WSOY, 1950. * ''Kansanrunojen maailmanselitys''. Helsinki Porvoo: WSOY, 1955. * ''Karjalan jumalat: Uskontotieteellinen tutkimus''. Porvoo: WSOY, 1959. * ''Kuolematonten lehdot: Sämpsöi Pellervoisen arvoitus''. Porvoo: WSOY, 1961. * ''Bjarmien vallan kukoistus ja tuho: Historiaa ja runoutta''. Porvoo Helsinki: WSOY, 1965. * ''Suomalainen mytologia''. Porvoo Helsinki: WSOY, 1967. * ''Esseitä kansanrunoudesta''. Articles published 1959 in ''Essais folkloriques par Martti Haavio''. Studia Fennica 8. Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seuran toimituksia 564. Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 1992. .

Poetic works

* ''Laulu ihanista silmistä'' (1925) * ''Laulu vaakalinnusta'', (1927) * ''Jäähyväiset Arkadialle'' (1945) * ''Koiruoho, ruusunkukka'' (1947) * ''Linnustaja'' (1952) * ''Tuuli Airistolta'' (1969)

References

External links

Haavio at YLE
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Martti Haavio in 375 humanists 23.02.2015, Faculty of Arts, University of Helsinki
{{DEFAULTSORT:Haavio, Martti 1899 births 1973 deaths People from North Ostrobothnia People from Oulu Province (Grand Duchy of Finland) People of the Finnish Civil War (White side) Writers from Northern Ostrobothnia Finnish male poets Finnish folklorists Finnish military personnel of World War II 20th-century Finnish poets Burials at Hietaniemi Cemetery 20th-century Finnish male writers