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Runar Schildt

Died in 1925

Ernst Runar Schildt was born in Helsingfors on 26 October 1888. At twenty he was employed at the university library, then became a director at the Swedish Theatre of the city, and held a management post in the Holger Schildt publishing house. He wrote thirty-three tales, of which twenty-five appeared in volume form, and three plays. His son Göran became an art historian and writer. He took his own life in Helsingfors on 29 September 1925, aged thirty-six.

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