Karl August Tavaststjerna

Karl August Tavaststjerna was born on 13 May 1860 at the Annila estate, near Mikkeli, into a military family. Trained in architecture, he then devoted himself to letters and stayed in Paris in the early 1880s. In 1891 he married the actress Augusta Kindstrand, failed to make a living by his pen on the Continent, from 1895 ran the newspaper of Hangö and then that of Björneborg, and sometimes signed Paul Dubois. Suffering from pneumonia, he was mistakenly given lysol instead of a cough syrup, and died in Björneborg in March 1898.

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• NovelBarndomsvännerKarl August Tavaststjerna · 1886not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain