Atos Wirtanen

Atos Kasimir Wirtanen ( born January 28, 1906 in Saltvik in Åland, † March 10, 1979 in Helsinki ) was a Swedish finland journalist, politician and author.

Wirtanen was born in 1906 as son of Charles Robert Wirtanen and Eva Amanda Lundelin in Saltvik in Åland. From 1936 to 1954 he sat in the Finnish parliament and initially belonged to the Social Democratic Party of Finland ( SDP),. In September 1946, he joined the People's Democratic Union party ( SKDL ) at. The SKDL was created in 1944 after the legalization of the Communist Party of Finland as a coalition of various left groupings. Through his and transgresses another SDP member for SKDL fraction was SKDL the strongest force in parliament. Wirtanen itself founded in 1946 joined the Socialist Unity Party ( SYP) and was its chairman from 1948 to 1955. Under his leadership, the SYP, which always remained small party in 1955 came to from the SKDL.

As a journalist, he worked for the Social Democratic Arbetarbladet and SKDL sheet Ny Tid, whose editor in chief, he was from 1947 to 1953. He was friends with the writer Tove Jansson and served her with his green hat as a model of the fictional character Moomins Snufkin.

In 1954 he married the dancer Irja Hagfors. From 1942 to 1943 he was with Maj -Lis Stenman previously ( born Rydman ) married.

1964 and 1973 he published his two memoirs (Mot mörka makter and Politiska minnen ) and wrote books on various philosophical topics. In 1973 he received an honorary doctorate of philosophy from the University of Helsinki.

Works (selection)

  • Stoft och desolate (1941 )
  • Amor Fati (1942, dikter )
  • Ett enat North - morgondagens nödvändighet (1943 )
  • Nietzsche otidsenlige (1945 )
  • Ofärd och gryning (1946, collected articles from 1933 to 1946 )
  • Framtida (1951, aphorisms )
  • Tekniken, människan, cultures (1959 )
  • August Strindberg - liv och dikt (1962 )
  • Mot mörka makter (1963 )
  • Aforistik i urval (1965 )
  • Politiska minnen (1973 )
  • Och så vidare? Betraktelser av en utopist i vår tid (1984, philosophical writings, published posthumously, Holger Lillqvist )
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