Päiviö Tommila

Juhani Päiviö Tommila (4 August 1931 – 18 November 2022) was a Finnish historian and professor at Helsinki University.[1][2]

Career

Tommila was born in Jyväskylä on 4 August 1931. He became a PhD in 1962 with his dissertation La Finlande dans la politique européenne en 1809–1815. He was assistant at the university of Helsinki 1959-65 and associate professor 1962–67. Tommila was professor in Finland's history at the University of Turku 1965-76 and professor in Finland's history at Helsinki University 1976–94.[1][2] He served as rector of the University of Helsinki from 1988 to 1992.[2]

Tommila focused on Finnish history, foremost its political history in the 19th century, urban and journalistic history, and also historiography.[1] He was an academician, and a member of the Academy of Finland from 2004.[3]

Tommila's father was Eero Tommila, professor for chemistry at Helsinki University. Päiviö Tommila died on 18 November 2022, at the age of 91,[4] in Kauniainen.[5]

Publications

Author

  • Nurmijärven pitäjän historia I–II (1958–59)
  • La Finlande dans la politique européenne en 1809–1815 (1962)
  • Suomen lehdistön levikki ennen vuotta 1860 (1963)
  • Jyväskylän kaupungin historia I–II (1970–72)
  • Keski-Suomen lehdistö I–IV (with T. Raitio, 1970–79)
  • Suomen autonomian synty 1809–1819 (1984)
  • Suomen historiankirjoitus (1989)
  • Research in Finland: A History (2006)
  • Eero Tommila, kemisti (2009)
  • Kummalasta Telkkään: Sata vuotta Kustavin kesähistoriaa (2010)
  • Talonpoikia ja opinkäyntiä: Merikarvian Köörtilän Tommilan talon ja suvun tarina (2011)

Editor

  • Suomen kulttuurihistoria, I–III (1979–82)
  • Suomen kaupunkilaitoksen historia, I–III (1981–84)
  • Suomen lehdistön historia, I–X (1985–92)
  • Suomen hallitsijat (2000)
  • Suomen tieteen historia, I–IV (2000–03)

References

  1. ^ a b c "2004 Academicians" (PDF). Academy of Finland. 2004. p. 17. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 April 2012. Retrieved 21 November 2011.
  2. ^ a b c "Tommila, Päiviö" (in Swedish). Uppslagsverket Finland. 2009. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
  3. ^ Akateemikko Juhani Päiviö Tommila (Photo) (Finnish)
  4. ^ "Akateemikko Päiviö Tommila on kuollut". Ilta Sanomat. 20 November 2022. Retrieved 20 November 2022.
  5. ^ Death notice in Helsingin Sanomat on 4 December 2022, p. B 33.
  • Päiviö Tommila at 375 Humanists. The University of Helsinki, 9 October 2015. (In English.)