August Ahlqvist
Encyclopedia
Karl August Engelbrekt Ahlqvist, who wrote as A. Oksanen (1826–1889), was a Finnish poet, scholar of the Finno-Ugric language, author, and literary critic.
He was born in Kuopio
, on August 7, 1826, the illegitimate child of Baron Johan Mauritz Nordenstam (d. 1882); his mother Maria Augusta Ahlqvist (d. 1886) was a servant. He died November 20, 1889, in Helsinki, Finland.
As a scholar Ahlquvist contributed to reformation of the Finnish language, and was highly esteemed for his work in the Finnish, Hungarian, Estonian and related languages. His pungent criticism of Aleksis Kivi
's Seitsemän veljestä (Seven Brothers
) caused the publishers to postpone its issue.
He was born in Kuopio
Kuopio
Kuopio is a city and a municipality located in the region of Northern Savonia, Finland. A population of makes it the ninth biggest city in the country. The city has a total area of , of which is water and half forest...
, on August 7, 1826, the illegitimate child of Baron Johan Mauritz Nordenstam (d. 1882); his mother Maria Augusta Ahlqvist (d. 1886) was a servant. He died November 20, 1889, in Helsinki, Finland.
As a scholar Ahlquvist contributed to reformation of the Finnish language, and was highly esteemed for his work in the Finnish, Hungarian, Estonian and related languages. His pungent criticism of Aleksis Kivi
Aleksis Kivi
Aleksis Kivi , born Alexis Stenvall, was a Finnish author who wrote the first significant novel in the Finnish language, Seven Brothers...
's Seitsemän veljestä (Seven Brothers
Seven Brothers
Seven Brothers is the first and only novel by Aleksis Kivi, the national author of Finland, and it is widely regarded as the first significant novel written in Finnish and by a Finnish-speaking author. Published in 1870, Seven Brothers ended an era dominated by Swedish-speaking authors, most...
) caused the publishers to postpone its issue.
Works
- Satu, 1847
- Finland och finnarne före landets underkufvande af svenskarne, 1849
- Bidrag till finska. Finska språkforskningens historia, 1854
- Viron nykyisemmästä kirjallisuudesta, 1855
- Wotisk grammatik jemte språkprof och ordförteckning, 1855
- Anteckningar i Nordtschudiskan, 1859
- Muistelmia matkoilta Venäjällä vuosina 1845–58, 1859
- Läran on verben i mordwinska, 1859
- Laulu kellosta (Friedrich SchillerFriedrich SchillerJohann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller was a German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright. During the last seventeen years of his life , Schiller struck up a productive, if complicated, friendship with already famous and influential Johann Wolfgang von Goethe...
), 1859 (kääntäjä) - Väkinäinen naiminen (MolièreMolièreJean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière, was a French playwright and actor who is considered to be one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature...
) (kääntäjä) - Kavaluus ja rakkaus (Schiller), 1863 (kääntäjä)
- Säkeniä I-II, 1860, 1868
- Versuch einer mokscha-mordwinischen gramatik nebst texten und wörterverzeichniss, 1861
- Suomalainen runousoppi kielelliseltä kannalta, 1863
- Auszüge aus einer neuen grammatik der finnischen sprache, 1868
- Suomalainen murteiskirja, 1869
- Det vestfinska språkets kulturord, 1871
- Uusi suomalainen lukemisto suomalais-ruotsalaisen sanakirjan kanssa, 1873
- Suomen kielen rakennus, 1877
- Täydellinen Kalevalan sanasto, 1878
- Unter wogulen und ostjaken, 1883
- Elias Lönnrot, 1884
- Tutkimuksia Kalevalan tekstissä ja tämän tarkastusta, 1886
- Kalevalan karjalaisuus, 1887
- Suomalaisia puhekokeita, 1889
- Wogulischer Wörterverzeichniss, 1891
- Wogulische sprachtexte nebst entwurf einer wogulischen grammatik aus dem nacthklasse des verfassers. Hrsg. Von Yrjö Wichman, 1894
- Oksasen runoja, 1898
- Kirjeet, 1982