Päiviö Tommila

Juhani Päiviö Tommila (born August 4, 1931 in Jyväskylä ) is a Finnish historian and professor at the University of Helsinki .

academic career

Study of history from 1950; Candidate for philosophy 1954; Magister (primus) in philosophy (Finnish history) 1957, licentiate in 1960 and doctorate (primus) in 1964 at the University of Helsinki. Research trips in Europe.

Päiviö Tommila was habilitated with the work La Finlande dans la politique européenne en 1809-1815 (1962).

1955 to 1957 he was in the service of the Historical Commission of Nurmijärvi, 1959 to 1965 assistant for Finnish and Scandinavian history at the University of Helsinki, 1962 to 1967 private lecturer for Finnish history at the University of Helsinki. 1965 to 1976 professor of Finnish history at the University of Turku and from 1967 to 1971 and 1973 to 1975 also dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Turku.

In 1976 Tommila was appointed professor of Finnish history at the University of Helsinki, where he remained until his retirement in 1994. From 1988 to 1992 Tommila was rector of the University of Helsinki. From 1987 to 1988 he was previously Dean of the Department of History and Linguistics at the University of Helsinki.

Tommila's main areas of work are Finnish history , especially 19th century political history, urban history, the history of journalism and historiography .

He is an academic , a member of the Academy of Finland since 2004 and a member of the Finnish Scientific Society .

Private

Päiviö Tommila has been married to fil since 1955. maist. Seija Inkeri Katarina, b. Kilpi, daughter of Prof. Sulo Kilpi and Aino Inkeri (née Aimonen), and father of five children: Timo (1956), Arvi (1958), Lauri (1961), Anna (1963) and Leena (1971). His father is Eero Tommila , formerly a chemistry professor at the University of Helsinki, his mother filosofian maisteri Salli Anna Margareta geb. Niininen.

Publications

• Helsinki kylpyläkaupunkina 1830-1850-luvuilla , Helsinki 1955
• Nurmijärven pitäjän historia I – II (1958–59)
• Venäläinen sortokausi Suomessa (1960)
• La Finlande dans la politique européenne en 1809-1815 (1962)
• Suomen lehdistön levikki ennen vuotta 1860 (1963)
• Arvid David Hummel - un entomologist oublié , Suomen Hyönteistieteellinen Aikakauskirja (1963)
• Jyväskylän kaupungin historia I – II (1970–72)
• Keski-Suomen lehdistö I – IV (with T. Raitio, 1970–79)
• Suomen autonomian synty 1809-1819 (1984)
• Oulun Wiikko-Sanomia 1829–1879 (1984)
• Suomen lehdistön historia (1985)
• Suomen historiankirjoitus (1989)
• Sanomia kaikille - Suomen lehdistön historia (with Raimo Salokangas, 1998)
• Suuri adressi 1899 , WSOY (Werner Söderström Osakeyhtiö), Helsinki 1999, ISBN 951-0-23454-0
• Research in Finland: a history (2006)
• Vihreän lampun taika - Eero Tommila, kemisti (2009)
• Kummalasta Telkkään - sata vuotta Kustavin kesähistoriaa (2010)
• Talonpoikia ja opinkäyntiä: Merikarvian Köörtilän Tommilan talon ja suvun tarina (2011)

Editing

• Suomen kulttuurihistoria , three volumes (1979–82)
• Suomen kaupunkilaitoksen historia , three volumes (1981–84)
• Suomen lehdistön historia , ten volumes (1985–92)
• Suomen hallitsijat (2000)
• Suomen tieteen historia , four volumes (2000–03)

Offices (selection)

• 1975–1992 Head of the History of the Finnish Press Project
• 1978–1985 board member, 1985–1987 chairman, 1987–1996 supervisory board member, 1994–1996 chairman of the supervisory board of the Finnish Cultural Foundation
• 1983–1990 editor-in-chief of the Historiallinen Aikakauskirja (historical epoch book)
• 1989–2000 Association of Scientific Societies
• 1993–2002 Advisory Board of the Finland Institute in Estonia

Awards (selection)

• Corresponding member of the Estonian Academy of Sciences January 9, 1991
• Honorary doctorate from Jyväskylä University in 1998
• Order of the Marienland Cross (Estonian Maarjamaa Risti teenetemärk) February 2, 2001
• Honorary degree academic 2004
• Commander's Cross I. Class Finnish Order of the White Rose
• Commander's Cross Order of the Lion of Finland

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Dr. Päiviö Tommila, who is one of the most important names in Finnish historical research ..."
2. ↑ Akateemikko Juhani Päiviö Tommila (photo) (Finnish)
3. ↑ Societas Scientiarum Fennica, List of Members (.pdf) ( Memento of the original from October 5, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ https://kansallisbiografia.fi/kansallisbiografia/henkilo/1474
5. ↑ The History of the Finnish Press (English)
6. ↑ https://www.president.ee/en/estonia/decorations/bearer/206/paivio-tommila