Elias Lönnrot

Elias Lönnrot (9 April 1802 – 19 March 1884) was a Finnish philologist. He collected traditional spoken poems and made a book of them. He made Finland's national epic, "Kalevala". This is a book of traditional folk stories and poems. He collected these during several journeys across Finland, Karelia, and parts of Russia and the Baltic countries.
Lönnrot, Mikael Agricola and Aleksis Kivi are regarded fathers of a national literature in Finnish.
Lönnrot also the first book about plants in Finland, "Flora Fennica" () in 1860.
He born and died in Sammatti, an old town in Uusimaa.