Warum feiern wir Aleksis Kivis D? Hatte er einen großen?
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Von Quenki
Warum feiern wir Aleksis Kivis D? Hatte er einen großen?
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Von Quenki
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Big and hard as a Rock
No it was normal sized but we are celebrating its unique and beautiful bend.
Dysleksis Viki
Isoin saatanan kivi.
His moniker is the father of Finnish literature.
He wrote novels and plays in Finnish at a time when all literature in Finland was written in Swedish. The only books in Finnish was the Bible, hymnbooks and the book of law.
Finland had one university and all education at Uni and secondary school was in done in Swedish and Latin.
So despite being impoverished he managed to drag himself through schooling and passed the Uni entrance exam. There he never decided to focus on becoming clergy (very common Uni path at the time) or civil servant and instead devoted himself to the written word.
So here comes this young commoner scrappy writer and starts creating works in Finnish. Minds are blown, perfectly working with the growing zeitgeist of a unified Finnish culture and language (spearheaded ironically or unironically enough by Swedish speaking Finns) and helped cement and start Finnish as the main language in Finland.
He only made it because he had solid supporters but he had some serious opposition in high places and eventually got committed to a mental hospital, deteriorated and lived out the rest of his short time with his brother. He didn’t even reach 40.
Aleksis Veljen seitsemän kivestä
Yes
Fun fact about the man’s legacy.
In Tuusula there’s his death mökki along with Finnish and English info. While reading it I noticed a strange mismatch.
The Finnish version read :
Kansalliskirjailijamme kuoli mieleltään sairaana veljensä Albertin mökissä vuoden viimeisenä päivänä 1872.
But in English :
Exhausted, depressed, sick both in mind and body, Kivi died in his brother’s tiny cottage on the last day of 1872.
Aleksis Kivi would be awesome porn-name
We celebrate that Aleksis was stoned
D = day
Aleksis Kivi Day used to be a day off in Finnish schools decades ago.