Bertel Johan Sebastian, Baron Gripenberg

Bertel Johan Sebastian, Baron Gripenberg (born Sept. 10, 1878, St. Petersburg, Russia—died May 6, 1947, Sävsjö, Swed.) was one of the foremost Finnish poets who wrote in Swedish. Gripenberg studied law at the University of Helsinki, became a freelance writer, and spent the last years of his life on his estate at Sääksmäki in southwestern Finland. His first collection, Dikter (1903; “Poems”), attracted attention for its richness of colour and sensualism. This and other early...