Yrjö Reinhold Emanuel Blomstedt, (25 March 1926 in Helsinki

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-13 April 1994 in Helsinki). He was a Finnish historian, PhD

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 1958. Blomstedt took part in the politics of the Finnish students 1963-65. Between 1960 and 1964 he was a docent in Finland's history at Helsinki University and was appointed professor

Professor

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 in legal history

Legal history

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 and Roman law

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 in 1964.

Blomstedt was very interested in genealogy

Genealogy

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 (he was chairman of the Genealogical society many times) and was a publisher of many cultural journals. He published a lot of personal historical works (such as biographies of Johan Albrecht Ehrenström

Johan Albrecht Ehrenström

Johan Albrecht Ehrenström was a notable Finnish architect.Ehrenström was a resident of what would later become Finland, in the eastern parts of the Swedish Kingdom. Following the Swedish defeat in the Finnish War in 1809, the region became a part of the Russian Empire, and the city of Helsinki...

 and K. J. Ståhlberg), and a few judicial histories.

Publications

• K.J. Ståhlberg (1969)
• Johan Albrecht Ehrenström (1963)
• Suomen historia, 4 (1986)
• Suomen itsenäisyys. Aatteita ja hankkeita 1700-luvulta 1900-luvulle (1967)
• Turun hovioikeus 1623 31/10 (1973)