See also:

• ELIAS, JOHN (1774-1841)

ELIAS See also:

• ELIAS LONNROT (1802-1884)

LONNROT (1802-1884)  , Finnish philologist and discoverer of the Kalevala, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Nyland in See also:

• FINLAND (Finnish, Suomi or Suomenmaa)

Finland on the gth of See also:

• APRIL

April 1802 . He was an See also:

• APOTHECARY (from the Lat. apothecarius, a keeper of an apotheca, Gr. aroth is , a store)

apothecary's assistant, but entered the university of See also:

• ABO (Finnish Turku)

Abo in 1822, and after taking his successive degrees became a physician in 1832 . But before this, as See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early as 1827, he had begun to publish contributions to the study of the See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

ancient Finnish See also:

• LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language, and to collect the See also:

• NATIONAL

national See also:

• BALLADS

ballads and folk-See also:

• LORE
• LORE, AMBROISE DE (1396-1446)

lore, a See also:

• FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
• FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
• FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
• FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
• FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
• FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
• FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
• FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
• FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
• FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
• FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)

field which was at that See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time uncultivated . In 1833 he settled as a See also:

• DOCTOR (Lat. for " teacher ")

doctor in the See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country See also:

• DISTRICT

district of Kajana, and began to travel throughout Finland and the adjoining See also:

• RUSSIAN

Russian provinces in his leisure time, See also:

• COLLECTING

collecting songs and legends . In this way he was able to put together the See also:

• GREAT

great epic of Finland, the Kalevala,the first edition of which he published in 1835; he continued to add to it, and in 1849 issued a larger and completer See also:

• TEXT (Lat. textum, woven fabric, from texere, to weave)

text . In 184o See also:

• LONNROT, ELIAS (1802-1884)

Lonnrot issued his important collection of the Kanteletar, or folk-songs of ancient Finland, which he had taken down from oral tradition . The See also:

• PROVERBS, BOOK OF (Heb. Mishle Slzelomoh, " Proverbs of Solomon," abridged by the later Jews to Mishle; Septuagint, irapotpiai or II. EaX.; Lat. Vulg. Parabolae sal. and Liber proverbiorum)

Proverbs of Finland followed in 1842 . In 1853, on the See also:

• DEATH

death of See also:

• CASTREN, MATTHIAS ALEXANDER (1813-1853)

Castren, Lonnrot became See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of the Finnish language and literature at the high school of See also:

• HELSINGFORS (Finnish Helsinki)

Helsingfors; he retired from this See also:

• CHAIR (in. Mid. Eng. chcere, through O. Fr. chaire or chaiere, from Lat. cathedra, later caledra, Gr. xaOi3pa, seat, cf. "cathedral"; the modern Fr. form chaise, a chair, has been adopted in English with a particular meaning as a form of carriage; chaire

chair in 1862 . He died on the loth of See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

March 1884 .