Juhani Aho
JUHANI AHO was born Johannes Brofeldt in 1861. He studied classical languages at the University of Helsinki. His love for Aino Järnefelt, one of the younger members of the famous artistic family, was unfulfilled; she married Jean Sibelius instead. He translated many writers into Finnish for the first time, including Daudet, Hugo and Maeterlinck, and also worked as a journalist, taking on his new Finnish name early in his career. His own output included many novels, sketches and short stories, ranging stylistically over time from realism to neo-romanticism. He also founded a newspaper. He died in Helsinki in 1921.
