Matti Pohto
Matti Pohto (born March 7, 1817 in Isokyrö , † July 30, 1857 in Wiborg ) was a Finnish book collector .
Life
Pohto had never attended school and worked as a rag picker without a permanent residence. During his wanderings through Finland, he gathered a collection of 3,000 volumes of books. He kept the books in several places. In the mid-1840s he began helping Fredrik Wilhelm Pipping , the senior librarian of Helsinki University Library , to build a new collection of Fennica, Finnish books, after the Academy library was destroyed in the Turku fire in 1827 . Matti Pohto filled in missing books with donations to the University of Helsinki from his holdings.
Pohto was murdered near Wiborg in 1857 while on a rag and book collection trip. In his will he bequeathed most of his books to the university. His collection forms the basis of the collection of old fennica in the university library.
literature
- Jussi Nuorteva : Pohto, Matti. In: Olli Alho (Hrsg.): Kulturlexikon Finland. 2nd Edition. Finnish Literature Society , Helsinki 1999, ISBN 951-717-032-5 , page 249 f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pohto, Matti |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Finnish book collector |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 7, 1817 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Isokyrö |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 30, 1857 |
| Place of death | Wiborg |