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Bertel Gripenberg

Died in 1947

Bertel Gripenberg was born in Saint Petersburg in September 1878, a baron from a Swedish-speaking noble family of Finland, and as a child discovered at Mikkeli the nature of the Finnish country. He was a tutor on manor estates, an estate manager, then a landowner at Sääksmäki, and translated from Finnish and English. Hostile to parliamentary democracy, he joined the Whites in 1918, then the Lapua movement and the farmers' march of 1930. Nominated fourteen times for the Nobel Prize, he died in Sweden, at Sävsjö, in May 1947.

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