Atos Wirtanen

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Atos Kasimir Wirtanen (born January 28, 1906 in Saltvik on Åland , † March 10, 1979 in Helsinki ) was a Finnish-Swedish journalist , politician and author .

Wirtanen was born in 1906 in Saltvik on Åland, the son of Karl Robert Wirtanen and Eva Amanda Lundelin. From 1936 to 1954 he sat in the Finnish Reichstag and was initially a member of the Social Democratic Party of Finland (SDP). In September 1946 he joined the parliamentary group of the People's Democratic Union (SKDL). The SKDL was founded in 1944 after the legalization of the Communist Party of Finland as an electoral alliance of various left-wing groups. Through his and the transfer of another SDP member to the SKDL parliamentary group, the SKDL became the strongest force in parliament. Wirtanen himself joined the Socialist Unity Party (SYP) founded in 1946 and was its chairman from 1948 to 1955. Under his leadership, the SYP, which always remained a small party, left the SKDL in 1955.

As a journalist, he worked for the social democratic Arbetarbladet and the SKDL newspaper Ny Tid , of which he was editor-in-chief from 1947 to 1953. He was friends with the writer Tove Jansson and with his green hat served her as a model for the fictional Moomin figure Snufkin .

In 1954 he married the dancer Irja Hagfors . From 1942 to 1943 he was previously married to Maj-Lis Stenman ( nee Rydman ).

In 1964 and 1973 he published his two memoirs ( Mot mörka makter and Politiska minnen ) and wrote books on various philosophical subjects. In 1973 he received an honorary doctorate in philosophy from the University of Helsinki .

Works (selection)

  • Stoft och barren (1941)
  • Amor Fati (1942, dictator)
  • Ett enat north - morgondagens nödvändighet (1943)
  • Nietzsche the otidsenlige (1945)
  • Ofärd och gryning (1946, collected articles from 1933 to 1946)
  • Framtida (1951, aphorisms )
  • Tekniken ,omanniskan, Kulturen (1959)
  • August Strindberg - liv och dikt (1962)
  • Mot mörka makter (1963)
  • Aforistik i urval (1965)
  • Politiska minnen (1973)
  • Oh så vidare? Betraktelser av en utopist i vår tid (1984, philosophical writings, published posthumously, Holger Lillqvist)

Web links

  • Atos Wirtanen on eduskunta.fi (page about Finnish members of the Reichstag; Finnish)
  • Atos Wirtanen on elmerinfo.net (deals with the philosophical achievement; Swedish / Finnish)
personal data
SURNAME Wirtanen, Atos
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wirtanen, Atos Kasimir (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish journalist, politician, member of the Reichstag and author of the Swedish language
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Saltvik in Åland
DATE OF DEATH March 10, 1979
Place of death Helsinki