Yrjö Fredrik Nurmio (29 April 1901 in

Raisio Raisio (; ) is a town in Finland, located in the Southwest Finland region. It lies north of the regional capital, Turku. The population of Raisio is approximately , while the sub-region has a population of approximately . It is the most populou ...

– 15 June 1983 in

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) was director of the

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1949–67 and an acting

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in 1949. In 1949 he also received the honorary title of professor. He was a brother to

Heikki Nurmio Heikki Nurmio (1887–1947) was a Finnish jäger and writer. He is remembered for writing the lyrics for "Jääkärien marssi" ('' Jäger March'') composed by Jean Sibelius in 1917. Heikki Nurmio joined the 27th Jäger Battalion in 1916 in Ger ...

. In his historical research Nurmio has foremost treated

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and the position of the

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during Russian rule 1809–1917. The censor ordinance of 1850 forbade publication of literature other than spiritual and economical. The Finnish people was not to take part in writings that was critical to the society. He wrote a book about it in 1947 where he tried to find out if it was Finnish or Russian officials that created the ordinance. Nurmio has even treated the relationship between

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and

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1917–1918 in (''Suomen itsenäistyminen ja Saksa'', 1957).

References

* Klinge, Matti: ''Idyll och hot'' (2000). *
Nurmio, Yrjö
at ''Uppslagsverket Finland''. {{DEFAULTSORT:Nurmio, Yrjo 1901 births 20th-century Finnish historians Finnish archivists 1983 deaths