Aatto Suppanen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Aatto Suppanen

Finnish translator

Date of Birth: 15-Apr-1855

Place of Birth: Ruskeala, Russia

Date of Death: 03-Feb-1898

Profession: translator, author, linguist

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Adolf (Aatto) Suppanen (born 15 April 1855 in then-Finnish Ruskeala, d.
3 February 1898 in Helsinki) was a Finnish writer, journalist and translator.
He used the nom de plume of Aatto S. By the late 1800s Suppanen had become a prolific translator into Finnish, primarily from Swedish and German, and he was the first professional literary translator into Finnish.
Two well-known English-language works that he translated were Lew Wallace's Ben-Hur (Ben-Hur: kertomus Kristuksen ajoilta), and Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (Setä Tuomon tupa) On 1 June 1882, he married Alma Erika Henriette Bonsdorff (1851-1937), from Jokioinen, the daughter of Erik Napoleon Bonsdorff (1805-1870) and Henriette Rotkirch (1808-1851).
The couple had four children, Aino (b.
1884), Toini (b.
1885), Viljo (b.
1887) and Alma (b.
1888).