Jalmari Sauli
Jalmari Sauli circa 1929
Personal information
Birth nameHjalmar Verner Saxelin
Full nameJalmari Verneri Sauli
NationalityFinnish
Born(1889-08-17)17 August 1889
Hämeenlinna, Grand Duchy of Finland, Russian Empire
Died22 April 1957(1957-04-22) (aged 67)
Tampere, Finland
EducationMaster of Arts, University of Helsinki, 1911
Occupation(s)Fiction writer, office manager, editor-in-chief, municipal councillor
Spouses
  • Lyyli Allas 1909–1929
  • Kaarina Helena Pirjola 1931–
Sport
CountryFinland
SportAthletics
EventThrowing events
Club
  • Helsingin Unitas
  • Helsingin Reipas
Achievements and titles
Personal bests
  • javelin throw: 49.47 m (1908)
  • two-handed discus throw: 72.00 m (1908)

Jalmari Verneri Sauli (born Hjalmar Verner Saxelin; 17 August 1889 – 22 April 1957) was a Finnish writer and track and field athlete who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics.

Athletics

Olympics

Sauli entered five events at the 1908 Olympics.

Jalmari Sauli at the Olympic Games
Games Event Rank Result Notes
1908 Summer Olympics Shot put 7th 12.58 m Source:[1]
Discus throw 12th–24th unknown Source:[2]
Javelin throw 7th unknown Source:[3] Distances were only measured for the first six competitors.[4]
Freestyle javelin throw 8th 43.30 m Source:[5]
Greek discus throw Did not start Source:[6]

Records

Sauli posted 25.38 metres in two-handed shot put in Stockholm on 13 September 1908. This was declared a world record.[7]

Sauli became the first Finn to exceed 14 metres in shot put, when he put 14.06 metres on 5 September 1908.[8]

White Guard

Sauli joined the Mänttä White Guard as it was taking form in November 1917 and became its chief of logistics.[9] He was wounded in the Finnish Civil War.[10] He was the local chief of Mänttä White Guard in 1919–1921,[11] and a member of staff of North Tavastia White Guard District in 1920.[12]

He was the editor-in-chief of the White Guard magazine Varsinais-Suomen vartio.[10]

Writer

Sauli was the assistant editor-in-chief of Aamulehti in 1911–1914.[13] He was the editor-in-chief of the newspaper Hämeen Sanomat in 1914–1917[14] and the regional weekly Järviseutu in 1937–1939 and 1941–1944.[15]

His impetus to start writing novels was a months-long recovery period after being wounded in the Finnish Civil War. The resulting book Valkoinen varjo drew from his experiences in the war, and is credited as the first Finnish adventure novel.[10][16] The book was handed out as an award by the White Guard. Sauli's patriotic views became the base for his literary career.[17]

He mostly wrote novels for young adults, in the genres of historical and wilderness adventure. He also wrote novels for adults, plays and children's books. His books have been reprinted the last time in the 1980s.[10][18]

He won the Finnish State Prize for Literature in 1928 for Himmeli and in 1937 for Vanha savenvalaja.[19]

He used the pseudonyms Heikki Hernesmaa and Samuli.[20]

Family

Father was industrialist Carl Otto Saxelin and mother Saida Maria Blåfield.[21]

Brother Jonni Sauli was a professor of agriculture at the University of Helsinki.[22] Brother Into Saxelin was a sculptor.[23]

Jalmari, Saida and Jonni finnicized their family name from Saxelin to Sauli on 6 April 1908.[24]

His first marriage was to Lyyli Allas in 1909–1929 and second to Kaarina Helena Pirjola from 1931.[21]

Son Jaakko Sauli won two Finnish national championship golds in relay races in 1935 and 1936. He was a company commander in the Bicycle Battalion 5 during the Winter War, when a close-range machine gun burst from a tank wounded him lethally.[25]

Sources

References

  1. ^ Mallon, Bill; Buchanan, Ian (2001). The 1908 Olympic Games: Results for All Competitors in All Events, With Commentary. Jefferson, North Carolina, United States: McFarland. p. 90. ISBN 978-0-7864-0598-5.
  2. ^ Mallon, Bill; Buchanan, Ian (2001). The 1908 Olympic Games: Results for All Competitors in All Events, With Commentary. Jefferson, North Carolina, United States: McFarland. pp. 92–93. ISBN 978-0-7864-0598-5.
  3. ^ Mallon, Bill; Buchanan, Ian (2001). The 1908 Olympic Games: Results for All Competitors in All Events, With Commentary. Jefferson, North Carolina, United States: McFarland. p. 100. ISBN 978-0-7864-0598-5.
  4. ^ Mallon, Bill; Buchanan, Ian (2001). The 1908 Olympic Games: Results for All Competitors in All Events, With Commentary. Jefferson, North Carolina, United States: McFarland. p. 115, endnote 314. ISBN 978-0-7864-0598-5.
  5. ^ Mallon, Bill; Buchanan, Ian (2001). The 1908 Olympic Games: Results for All Competitors in All Events, With Commentary. Jefferson, North Carolina, United States: McFarland. p. 98. ISBN 978-0-7864-0598-5.
  6. ^ Mallon, Bill; Buchanan, Ian (2001). The 1908 Olympic Games: Results for All Competitors in All Events, With Commentary. Jefferson, North Carolina, United States: McFarland. p. 114, endnote 275. ISBN 978-0-7864-0598-5.
  7. ^ "Suomalainen maailmanrekordi". Helsingin Sanomat (in Finnish). 16 September 1908. p. 6. ISSN 0355-2047. Retrieved 2 October 2022 – via Digital Collections of National Library of Finland.
  8. ^ Laitinen, Esa (1987). Suomen yleisurheilun tilasto-osa (in Finnish). Helsinki: Finnish Amateur Athletic Association. p. 583.
  9. ^ Tienari, Artturi (1943). Pirkan perintö. Katsaus Pohjois-Hämeen suojeluskuntapiirin historiaan (in Finnish). Tampere: Pirkka-Hämeen suojeluskuntien piiriesikunta. p. 157.
  10. ^ a b c d Mäenpää, Jorma (1958). Sata vuotta sadun ja seikkailun mailla. Suomalaisen lasten- ja nuorisokirjallisuuden vaiheita (in Finnish). Helsinki: Valistus. pp. 73–76.
  11. ^ Tienari, Artturi (1943). Pirkan perintö. Katsaus Pohjois-Hämeen suojeluskuntapiirin historiaan (in Finnish). Tampere: Pirkka-Hämeen suojeluskuntien piiriesikunta. p. 292.
  12. ^ Tienari, Artturi (1943). Pirkan perintö. Katsaus Pohjois-Hämeen suojeluskuntapiirin historiaan (in Finnish). Tampere: Pirkka-Hämeen suojeluskuntien piiriesikunta. p. 280.
  13. ^ Arajärvi, Kirsti (1956). Aamulehti I. 1881–1914 (in Finnish). p. 74.
  14. ^ Tommila, Päiviö; Ekman-Salokangas, Ulla; Aalto, Eeva-Liisa; Salokangas, Raimo, eds. (1988). Sanoma- ja paikallislehdistö 1771–1985. Hakuteos Aamulehti–Kotka nyheter. Suomen lehdistön historia (in Finnish). Vol. 5. Kuopio: Kustannuskiila. p. 160. ISBN 9516572391.
  15. ^ Tommila, Päiviö; Ekman-Salokangas, Ulla; Aalto, Eeva-Liisa; Salokangas, Raimo, eds. (1988). Sanoma- ja paikallislehdistö 1771–1985. Hakuteos Aamulehti–Kotka nyheter. Suomen lehdistön historia (in Finnish). Vol. 5. Kuopio: Kustannuskiila. p. 227. ISBN 9516572391.
  16. ^ Kuusi, Matti; et al., eds. (1970). Kirjallisuuden lajeja. Suomen kirjallisuus (in Finnish). Vol. 8. Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura. p. 311. ISBN 951-1-03307-7.
  17. ^ Immonen, Kari (1987). Ryssästä saa puhua... Neuvostoliitto suomalaisessa julkisuudessa ja kirjat julkisuuden muotona 1918–39 (in Finnish). Helsinki: Otava. p. 14. ISBN 951-1-09365-7.
  18. ^ Suojala, Marja; Volotinen, Teresia, eds. (2005). Lastenkirja aikansa kuvastimena (in Finnish). Helsinki: BTJ Kirjastopalvelu. p. 30. ISBN 951-692-597-9.
  19. ^ Bengtsson, Niklas (2003). Kirjallisuuspalkinnot Suomessa (in Finnish). Helsinki: BTJ Kirjastopalvelu. pp. 104 and 100. ISBN 951-692-546-4.
  20. ^ Hirvonen, Maija (2000). Salanimet ja nimimerkit. Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seuran kirjaston julkaisuja (in Finnish). Vol. 16. Helsinki: BTJ Kirjastopalvelu. p. 702. ISBN 9516924646. ISSN 0357-2978.
  21. ^ a b Launonen, Hannu; et al., eds. (1981). Suomen kirjailijat 1917–1944. Pienoiselämäkerrat. Teosbibliografiat. Tutkimusviitteet [Writers in Finland 1917–1944. Concise biographies. Bibliographies. Research references.]. Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seuran toimituksia (in Finnish). Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura. p. 395. ISBN 951-717-238-9. ISSN 0355-1768.
  22. ^ Mäkinen, Riitta; et al. (2006). Klinge, Matti; Litzen, Aulikki; et al. (eds.). Suomen kansallisbiografia. Studia biographica (in Finnish). Vol. 8: von Qvanten–Sillanpää. Helsinki: Finnish Literature Society. pp. 700–701. ISBN 951-746-449-5. ISSN 1456-2138.
  23. ^ Lindgren, Liisa; et al. (2006). Klinge, Matti; Litzen, Aulikki; et al. (eds.). Suomen kansallisbiografia. Studia biographica (in Finnish). Vol. 8: von Qvanten–Sillanpää. Helsinki: Finnish Literature Society. pp. 718–719. ISBN 951-746-449-5. ISSN 1456-2138.
  24. ^ "Nimen muutos". Suomalainen Wirallinen Lehti (in Finnish). No. 82/1908. 8 April 1908. p. 3. Retrieved 17 July 2018 – via Digital Collections of National Library of Finland.
  25. ^ Arponen, Antti O.; Kasila, Markku; Peltola, Veli-Matti (2014). He antoivat kaikkensa. Viime sodissa menehtyneet mestariurheilijat (in Finnish). Helsinki: Auditorium. pp. 160–161. ISBN 978-952-7043-03-5.
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