Juhani Siljo, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Juhani Siljo

Finnish poet, journalist

Date of Birth: 03-May-1888

Place of Birth: Oulu, Northern Finland Regional State Administrative Agency, Finland

Date of Death: 06-May-1918

Profession: poet, translator

Nationality: Finland

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Juhani Siljo (3 May 1888 – 6 May 1918) was a Finnish poet and translator. Siljo was born as Johan Alarik Sjögren in Oulu.
He completed the Oulun Lyseon Lukio upper secondary school in 1907, and started studies in the University of Helsinki at the same year, but never graduated, instead he focused on writing.
He wrote poems, essays and translated authors like Novalis, Friedrich Schiller, Goethe, Friedrich Nietzsche and Charles Baudelaire.Siljo also worked as an editor in the newspaper Helsingin Sanomat and the periodical Valvoja.
From 1915 to 1916 he worked as a library assistant in Jyväskylä.Siljo was on the side of the White Guards in the Finnish Civil War.
He was wounded and captured by the Red Guards in a battle in Orivesi.
He died in a military hospital in Tampere after the Battle of Tampere had ended in the victory of the Whites.



Alternative names	P. Halonen
Description	Finnish painter
Date of birth/death	23 September 1865	1 December 1933
Location of birth/death	Lapinlahti, Grand Duchy of Finland	Tuusula, Finland
Work location	Helsinki; Paris (1890)
Authority control	: Q1192814 VIAF: 72196310 ISNI: 0000 0000 6678 7388 ULAN: 500088088 LCCN: n86013341 Open Library: OL342243A WorldCat