RUNEBERG, JOHAN LUDVIG (, Pietarsaari–, Porvoo), Finland's national poet, many of whose works have been set to music.
Runeberg received his master's degree from Turku University in 1827 and in 1830 became a docent of Roman literature at the University of Helsinki. In 1837 he moved to Porvoo, where he taught Latin and Greek at the secondary school. In his late teens and early twenties he spent three years as a private tutor in...