Elias Lönnrot, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Elias Lönnrot

Finnish physician, philologist and collector of traditional Finnish oral poetry MOI

Date of Birth: 09-Apr-1802

Place of Birth: Sammatti, Uusimaa, Finland

Date of Death: 19-Mar-1884

Profession: writer, poet, physician writer, pedagogue, botanist, hymnwriter, linguist, lexicographer

Nationality: Finland, Sweden

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Elias Lönnrot (Finnish: ['e.li.?s 'løn.ru?t] (listen); 9 April 1802 – 19 March 1884) was a Finnish physician, philologist and collector of traditional Finnish oral poetry.
He is best known for creating the Finnish national epic, Kalevala, (1835, enlarged 1849), from short ballads and lyric poems gathered from the Finnish oral tradition during several expeditions in Finland, Russian Karelia, the Kola Peninsula and Baltic countries.