Yrjö Sakari Yrjö-Koskinen
Baron Yrjö Sakari Yrjö-Koskinen (born December 10, 1830 in Vasa , Grand Duchy of Finland , then Russian Empire ; † November 13, 1903 in Helsingfors ) was a Finnish statesman and historian. He was of Swedish descent and was originally called Georg Zacharias Forsman , but took the Finnish name Yrjö-Koskinen as a pseudonym as early as 1852 and as a real name in 1884, after he was ennobled.
academic career
He studied in Helsingfors from 1847 to 1853 and worked as a high school teacher from 1853 to 1863 and in the archives of Stockholm and Paris from 1860 to 1861. From 1863 to 1882 he was a university professor of the history of Helsingfors, and from 1866 to 1880, under the pseudonym Yrjö-Koskinen, he was the main editor of the "literary monthly" for the sole rule of the Finnish language in the Grand Duchy.
Political career
Leader of the anti- Swedish Fennomaniacs in the State Parliament since 1872 , he became a member of the Finnish Senate in 1882, where he received the Education and Culture Department in 1885 and was often indulgent to the Russian government. As a result, ennobled as Yrjö-Koskinen in 1884 and raised to the baron status in 1897, he had to resign in 1899 because he had voted for the promulgation of the unconstitutional February Manifesto and thereby lost the trust of many party members. But he soon regained a new reputation and from 1900 onwards, as the secret advisor to the ancient Fennomaniacs in the Senate, he had great influence on the shaping of the situation in Finland.
Works
Most of his works are written in Finnish and with an anti-Swedish tendency. Mention may be made: "News about the prehistoric times of the Finnish tribe" (Helsingfors 1862); "The Club War and Finland's Social Condition at the End of the Sixteenth Century" (Swedish, 1864–1865, 3 parts, 2nd edition 1877); "Contributions to the History of the Northern War" (1865); »Tales from the History of the Middle Ages« (1865–67); "Finnish History" (German, Leipzig 1874); "GM Sprengtporten and Finland's Independence" (1870); "History of the Finnish People" (2nd edition 1881–82; German, Leipzig 1873); "Guiding Ideas in the History of Mankind" (1879, 2nd edition 1901); "Investigation of the Finnish Real Estate in the Middle Ages" (1881).
Yrjö Koskinen was married to the Finnish writer Theodolinda Hahnsson .
swell
- Meyers Konversations-Lexikon , Volume 18 (annual supplement 1890-1891), page 497. 4th edition, Leipzig 1892
- Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon , Volume 20, Page 824. 6th edition, Leipzig 1909
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| SURNAME | Yrjö-Koskinen, Yrjö Sakari |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Yrjö-Koskinen, Zacharias; Yrjö-Koskinen, Sakari; Forsman, Zacharias; Forsman, Georg Zacharias |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Finnish-Swedish historian and statesman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 10, 1830 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vasa |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 13, 1903 |
| Place of death | Helsingfors |