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Elias Lönnrot

1802 - 1884

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Elias Lönnrot (Finnish: [ˈeliɑs ˈlønruːt] ; 9 April 1802 – 19 March 1884) was a Finnish polymath, physician, philosopher, poet, musician, linguist, journalist, philologist and collector of traditional Finnish oral poetry. He is best known for synthesizing the Finnish national epic, Kalevala (1835, enlarged 1849) from short ballads and lyric poems he gathered from Finnish oral tradition during several field expeditions in Finland, Russian Karelia, the Kola Peninsula and Baltic countries. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Elias Lönnrot has received more than 240,130 page views. His biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 57 in 2019). Elias Lönnrot is the 70th most popular physician (up from 100th in 2019), the 16th most popular biography from Finland (up from 17th in 2019) and the most popular Finnish Physician.

Elias Lönnrot was a Finnish doctor and philologist who is most famous for his work in the creation of the Finnish national epic, the Kalevala.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Elias Lönnrot ranks 70 out of 726. Before him are Francesco Redi, Shirō Ishii, Ferid Murad, Otto Loewi, Christiaan Barnard, and Herophilos. After him are Niels Ryberg Finsen, Frederick Banting, Stanley Cohen, Jacques Rogge, Selman Waksman, and August Krogh.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1802, Elias Lönnrot ranks 6. Before him are Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, Niels Henrik Abel, Archduke Franz Karl of Austria, and Lajos Kossuth. After him are János Bolyai, Miguel I of Portugal, Wilhelm Hauff, Louis-Eugène Cavaignac, Charles Wheatstone, and Germain Henri Hess. Among people deceased in 1884, Elias Lönnrot ranks 4. Before him are Gregor Mendel, Bedřich Smetana, and Maria Anna of Savoy. After him are Marie Taglioni, Marie Bashkirtseff, Johann Gustav Droysen, Paul Morphy, Jean-Baptiste Dumas, Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, Hermann Kolbe, and Fanny Elssler.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Elias Lönnrot ranks 16 out of 751. Before him are Aki Kaurismäki (1957), Tarja Halonen (1943), Urho Kekkonen (1900), Juho Kusti Paasikivi (1870), Lars Ahlfors (1907), and Helene Schjerfbeck (1862). After him are Mikael Agricola (1510), Artturi Ilmari Virtanen (1895), Risto Ryti (1889), Pehr Evind Svinhufvud (1861), Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld (1832), and Vissarion Belinsky (1811).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Finland

Among physicians born in Finland, Elias Lönnrot ranks 1. After him are Ragnar Granit (1900), Anders Chydenius (1729), Erik Adolf von Willebrand (1870), Arvo Ylppö (1887), and Aarne Pohjonen (1886).

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