Koivuniemi is a manor house in Helsinki

Helsinki

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, Finland

Finland

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, designed by the architect Wilhelm Linsén and build in the mid 19th century. Koivuniemi has been the home of the Finnish writer and historian Zacharias Topelius

Zacharias Topelius

Zachris Topelius was a Swedish-speaking Finnish author, journalist, historian, and rector of the University of Helsinki who wrote novels related to Finnish history in Swedish.-Life and career:...

 which after his death returned to the previous owners and is to the present owned by the Lilius

Lilius

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 family.

Well known guests of Koivuniemi include the poet Carl Snoilsky

Carl Snoilsky

Count Carl Johan Gustaf Snoilsky was a Swedish lyric poet, known for his realist poetry.Snoilsky was born in Stockholm. He was educated at the Clara School and Stockholms lyceum and in 1860 became a student at the University of Uppsala. He was trained for diplomacy, which he quit for work at the...

, writer Karl August Tavaststjerna and the social activist Alexandra Gripenberg

Alexandra Gripenberg

Alexandra Gripenberg, also known as Alexandra van Grippenberg, was a Finnish social activist, author, editor, newspaper publisher, and elected politician, and was a leading voice within the movement for women's rights in Finland at the turn of the 20th century...

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Sources

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zacharias_Topelius
• http://www.nykarlebyvyer.nu/sidor/TEXTER/PROSA/NF/topelinf.htm
• http://sivut.sipooinstituutti.net/kotiseutu/vasen.htm
• http://www.sls.fi/topelius/biografi.htm
• http://www.histdoc.net/varia/mechelin1888sv.html
• http://www.kansallisbiografia.fi/english/?id=4437
• http://www.sls.fi/topelius/biografi.htm