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Latecomers and Forerunners: Temporality, Historicity, and Modernity in Early Twentieth-Century Finnish Historiography

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‘Regimes of Historicity’ in Southeastern and Northern Europe, 1890–1945

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In 1864, Georg Zacharias Yrjö-Koskinen, professor of history at the Imperial Alexander University of Finland (the present University of Helsinki), analyzed the prospects for his native land:

Our nationality is nowhere near established, our statehood is in the early stages, our literature is poor and in its infancy our history is mostly uncovered. And yet we may exclaim as von Hutten1 once did in the time of the Reformation: Es ist eine Lust zu leben! It is a pleasure to live! — We have the marvelous dawn of struggle and work, of the awakening.

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Jalava, M. (2014). Latecomers and Forerunners: Temporality, Historicity, and Modernity in Early Twentieth-Century Finnish Historiography. In: Mishkova, D., Trencsényi, B., Jalava, M. (eds) ‘Regimes of Historicity’ in Southeastern and Northern Europe, 1890–1945. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137362476_3

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