Mikael Agricola
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Mikael Agricola was a Finnish Lutheran clergyman who became the de facto founder of literary Finnish and a prominent proponent of the Protestant Reformation in Sweden, including Finland, which was a Swedish territory at the time. He is often called the "father of literary Finnish".
Drawing of Mikael Agricola by Albert Edelfelt (1854–1900). No contemporary depictions of Agricola have survived.
First page of Abckiria
A letter written in Swedish by Mikael Agricola to Nils Bielke
The original statue of Mikael Agricola in Vyborg by Emil Wikström, photographed on the day of its reveal in 21 June 1908
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Finns or Finnish people are a Baltic Finnic ethnic group native to Finland.
19th century Fennomans consciously sought to define the Finnish people through depiction of the common people's everyday lives in art, such as this painting by Akseli Gallen-Kallela.
Man's costume during the Iron Age according to the archeological finds from Tuukkala. Interpretation from 1889.
Väinämöisen soitto (Väinämöinen's Play) by R. W. Ekman. The painting is a depiction of Väinämöinen playing the kantele.
Peasants toiling at a slash-and-burn site in Lapinlahti, Eastern Finland.