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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. In botany, he is remembered as the author of the 1860 Flora Fennica, the first scientific text written in Finnish rather than in Latin. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Elias Lönnrot is the 46th most popular physician (up from 70th in 2019), the 9th most popular biography from Finland (up from 16th 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 46 out of 726. Before him are Otto Heinrich Warburg, Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, Marcello Malpighi, Rita Levi-Montalcini, and Claude Bernard. After him are Peter Damian, Polycarp, Otto Fritz Meyerhof, Ronald Ross, Alexis Carrel, and Emil von Behring.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1802, Elias Lönnrot ranks 5. Before him are Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, Niels Henrik Abel, and Archduke Franz Karl of Austria. After him are Lajos Kossuth, János Bolyai, Miguel I of Portugal, Edwin Landseer, Louis-Eugène Cavaignac, Wilhelm Hauff, and Charles Wheatstone. 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, Hermann Kolbe, Cetshwayo kaMpande, Paul Morphy, Johann Gustav Droysen, Charles Adolphe Wurtz, Jean-Baptiste Dumas, and Marie Bashkirtseff.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Elias Lönnrot ranks 9 out of 751. Before him are Simo Häyhä (1905), Jean Sibelius (1865), Tove Jansson (1914), Frans Eemil Sillanpää (1888), Paavo Nurmi (1897), and Tarja Halonen (1943). After him are Urho Kekkonen (1900), Artturi Ilmari Virtanen (1895), Sauli Niinistö (1948), Juho Kusti Paasikivi (1870), Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld (1832), and Mika Waltari (1908).

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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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