Arvid Järnefelt
Arvid Järnefelt (pseudonyms: Arvi Rauta , Hilja Kahila , born November 16, 1861 in Saint Petersburg , † December 27, 1932 in Helsinki ) was a Finnish writer.
Life
Järnefelt was born as the son of the Russian general and governor August Alexander Järnefelt and Elisabeth Järnefelts (née Clodt von Jürgensburg ). His brother Armas became known as a composer, Eero as a painter, and his sister Aino became the wife of Jean Sibelius . Järnefelt studied psychology in Leipzig and after graduating from Helsinki University from 1886 to 1888 Russian language at Moscow University .
From 1890 Järnefelt was a judge, first in Helsinki, later in Österbotten in western Finland. Under the influence of Leo Tolstoy's writings , he gave up his career as a judge in 1896. He bought and ran the Rantala farm and also learned the craft of shoemaking and blacksmithing. In 1899 he was one of the founders of the magazine Päivälehti (later Helsingin Sanomat ), whose authors also included the writer Eino Leino . Järnefelt was also friends with Juhani Aho and the journalist and later Minister Eero Erkko .
Järnefelt published his first short stories influenced by Aleksis Kivi as early as 1883-84 in the Valvoja magazine . His first novel Isänmaa was published in 1893, the following year the autobiographical book Heräämiseni (My Awakening), in which he described his conversion to Tolstoianism. He described a trip to Tolstoy in 1899 in the report Päiväkirja matkaltani venäjälle . In 1907 the pamphlet Maa kuuluu kaikille! (The land belongs to everyone).
His play Tiitus and the novel Onnelisset , which he published under the pseudonym Hilja Kahila , had great success . In the novel Greeta ja hänen herransa (1925) he reflected on the Russian Revolution and the Finnish Civil War. Between 1928 and 1930 the large three-volume autobiographical novel Vanhempieni romaani (My parents' novel) was published.
Web links
- Pegasus - Arvid Järnefelt ( Memento from December 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Järnefelt, Arvid |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Arvi Rauta; Hilja Kahila |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Finnish writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 16, 1861 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Petersburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 27, 1932 |
| Place of death | Helsinki |