Yrjö Sakari Yrjö-Koskinen
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Baron
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Yrjö Sakari Yrjö-Koskinen (birth name Georg Zakarias Forsman, author name Yrjö Koskinen, 10 December 1830, Vaasa
Vaasa
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- 13 November 1903, Helsinki
Helsinki
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) was a freiherr
Freiherr
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, senator
Senate of Finland
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, professor
Professor
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, historian
Historian
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, politician
Politician
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and the chairman of the Finnish Party
Finnish Party
The Finnish Party was a Fennoman conservative political party in the autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland and independent Finland. Born out of Finland's language strife in the 1860s, the party sought to improve the position of the Finnish language in Finnish society...
after Johan Vilhelm Snellman
Johan Vilhelm Snellman
Johan Vilhelm Snellman was an influential Fennoman philosopher and Finnish statesman, ennobled in 1866.Snellman was born in Stockholm, Sweden, as son of Kristian Henrik Snellman, a ship's captain...
. He was a central figure in the fennoman
Fennoman
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movement. His original name was Georg Zakarias Forsman and his family from his father's side originated from Sweden
Sweden
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. He later fennicize
Fennicize
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d his name to Yrjö Sakari Yrjö-Koskinen.