Elsa Elina Enäjärvi-Haavio, also Elsa Eklund, (1901–1951) was a Finnish folklorist who carried out extensive research into folk poetry in the 1930s. As a result, in 1947 she was appointed docent of Finnish and folk poetics at the University…
Elina Haavio-Mannila (born 3 August 1933) is a Finnish social scientist and Professor Emerita of Sociology at the University of Helsinki where she served as the Docent of Sociology (1965–1971), Assistant Professor (1971–1992), and Professor…
In 1960, Haavio married Aale Tynni, after his first wife Elsa Enäjärvi-Haavio died in 1951 of cancer. His daughter, Elina Haavio-Mannila, was a social scientist.
Riitta Jallinoja (née Haantie; born 1943) [1 ] is a Finnish sociologist, who was appointed Finland's first family sociology professor at the University of Helsinki [2 ] in 2002. [3 ] She is known, among other things, for studying the role…
The university was founded in Turku in 1640 as the Regia Academia Aboensis [a ] under the Swedish Empire, and moved to Helsinki in 1828 under the sponsorship of Tsar Alexander I. The University of Helsinki is the oldest and largest…