Carl Axel Gottlund, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Carl Axel Gottlund

Linguist, folklorist and historian

Date of Birth: 24-Feb-1796

Place of Birth: Ruotsinpyhtää, Uusimaa, Finland

Date of Death: 20-Apr-1875

Profession: historian, translator, author, explorer, linguist

Nationality: Finland

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Carl Axel Gottlund (February 24, 1796 in Ruotsinpyhtää – April 20, 1875 in Helsinki) was a Finnish explorer, collector of folklore, historian, cultural politician, linguist, philologist, translator, writer, publisher and lecturer of Finnish language at the University of Helsinki.
He was a colorful cultural personality and one of the central Finnish national awakeners and — later — one of the leading dissidents at the same time. Gottlund pursued the creation of an autonomous Finnish territory from the Finn Forests on both sides of the Swedish-Norwegian border, with great economic and political independence. Gottlund is commonly attributed with saving the folklore of the Forest Finns.
Among ideas promoted by Gottlund was the view that all languages are interconnected by the same roots.