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Entry | Thukydides. Peloponnesolaissota. Kirjat I–IV; Kirjat V–VIII

Thukydides. Peloponnesolaissota. Kirjat I–IV; Kirjat V–VIII

Typology: Translation | Language: Finnish | Place of publication: Helsinki-Porvoo | Publisher: Werner Söderström Osakeyhtiö | Year: 1964

Greek Text: no

Content: Complete Work

Juho August Hollo (1885-1967), translator, Professor of Education at the University of Helsinki from 1930 to 1954. Hollo worked as a secondary school teacher from 1908 to 1919, became Professor at the University of Helsinki in 1920 and then spent five years in Leipzig and Vienna before returning to Helsinki to take up a professorship. From 1950 to 1954, he served as chancellor of Yhteiskunnallinen korkeakoulu (Civic College). He was among the most prolific translators into Finnish, translating works from multiple languages across a wide range of genres. By 1953, he reported having translated 170 books, with some sources attributing over 300 translations to him. His work included classical and modern authors such as Miguel de Cervantes, Anatole France, Gustave Flaubert, Stendhal, Voltaire, Charles Dickens, Jonathan Swift, Goethe, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Knut Hamsun, Nietzsche, and Thucydides.

Two volumes: vol. 1 (Books 1-4), vol. 2 (Books 5-8). With an introduction by Holger Thesleff (1924-2023), classical philologist and historian of ancient philosophy, Professor of Greek Philology at the University of Helsinki from 1968 to 1987. Thesleff served as an artilleryman in the Soviet-Finnish wars before sailing around the world and publishing an account of those voyages (Farewell Windjammer, 1951). His scholarship spanned Greek language, ancient philosophy, and the history of ideas, with contributions on Pythagorean literature and Plato.

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