Jalmari Sauli Explained

Jalmari Sauli
Birth Name:Hjalmar Verner Saxelin
Full Name:Jalmari Verneri Sauli
Nationality:Finnish
Birth Date:17 August 1889
Birth Place:Hämeenlinna, Grand Duchy of Finland, Russian Empire
Death Place:Tampere, Finland
Education:Master of Arts, University of Helsinki, 1911
Occupation:Fiction writer, office manager, editor-in-chief, municipal councillor
Country:Finland
Sport:Athletics
Event:Throwing events

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
GamesEventRankResultNotes
1908 Summer OlympicsShot put7th12.58 mSource:[1]
Discus throw12th–24thunknownSource:[2]
Javelin throw7thunknownSource:[3] Distances were only measured for the first six competitors.[4]
Freestyle javelin throw8th43.30 mSource:[5]
Greek discus throwDid not startSource:[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. He was the local chief of Mänttä White Guard in 1919–1921,[10] and a member of staff of North Tavastia White Guard District in 1920.[11]

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

Writer

Sauli was the assistant editor-in-chief of Aamulehti in 1911–1914.[12] He was the editor-in-chief of the newspaper Hämeen Sanomat in 1914–1917[13] and the regional weekly Järviseutu in 1937–1939 and 1941–1944.[14]

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.[15] The book was handed out as an award by the White Guard. Sauli's patriotic views became the base for his literary career.[16]

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.[17] [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.

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

Notes and References

  1. Book: The 1908 Olympic Games: Results for All Competitors in All Events, With Commentary . Mallon . Bill . Buchanan . Ian . McFarland . Jefferson, North Carolina, United States . 2001 . 90 . 978-0-7864-0598-5 .
  2. Book: The 1908 Olympic Games: Results for All Competitors in All Events, With Commentary . Mallon . Bill . Buchanan . Ian . McFarland . Jefferson, North Carolina, United States . 2001 . 92–93 . 978-0-7864-0598-5 .
  3. Book: The 1908 Olympic Games: Results for All Competitors in All Events, With Commentary . Mallon . Bill . Buchanan . Ian . McFarland . Jefferson, North Carolina, United States . 2001 . 100 . 978-0-7864-0598-5 .
  4. Book: The 1908 Olympic Games: Results for All Competitors in All Events, With Commentary . Mallon . Bill . Buchanan . Ian . McFarland . Jefferson, North Carolina, United States . 2001 . 115, endnote 314 . 978-0-7864-0598-5 .
  5. Book: The 1908 Olympic Games: Results for All Competitors in All Events, With Commentary . Mallon . Bill . Buchanan . Ian . McFarland . Jefferson, North Carolina, United States . 2001 . 98 . 978-0-7864-0598-5 .
  6. Book: The 1908 Olympic Games: Results for All Competitors in All Events, With Commentary . Mallon . Bill . Buchanan . Ian . McFarland . Jefferson, North Carolina, United States . 2001 . 114, endnote 275 . 978-0-7864-0598-5 .
  7. News: 16 September 1908 . Suomalainen maailmanrekordi . Helsingin Sanomat . fi . 6 . 0355-2047 . 2 October 2022 . Digital Collections of National Library of Finland.
  8. Book: Laitinen . Esa . 1987 . Suomen yleisurheilun tilasto-osa . fi . Helsinki . Finnish Amateur Athletic Association . 583.
  9. Book: Tienari . Artturi . 1943 . Pirkan perintö. Katsaus Pohjois-Hämeen suojeluskuntapiirin historiaan. . fi . Tampere . Pirkka-Hämeen suojeluskuntien piiriesikunta . 157.
  10. Book: Tienari . Artturi . 1943 . Pirkan perintö. Katsaus Pohjois-Hämeen suojeluskuntapiirin historiaan. . fi . Tampere . Pirkka-Hämeen suojeluskuntien piiriesikunta . 292.
  11. Book: Tienari . Artturi . 1943 . Pirkan perintö. Katsaus Pohjois-Hämeen suojeluskuntapiirin historiaan. . fi . Tampere . Pirkka-Hämeen suojeluskuntien piiriesikunta . 280.
  12. Book: Arajärvi . Kirsti . 1956 . Aamulehti I. 1881–1914 . fi . 74.
  13. Book: Tommila . Päiviö . Ekman-Salokangas . Ulla . Aalto . Eeva-Liisa . Salokangas . Raimo . 1988 . Sanoma- ja paikallislehdistö 1771–1985. Hakuteos Aamulehti–Kotka nyheter . Suomen lehdistön historia . fi . 5 . Kuopio . Kustannuskiila . 160 . 9516572391.
  14. Book: Tommila . Päiviö . Ekman-Salokangas . Ulla . Aalto . Eeva-Liisa . Salokangas . Raimo . 1988 . Sanoma- ja paikallislehdistö 1771–1985. Hakuteos Aamulehti–Kotka nyheter . Suomen lehdistön historia . fi . 5 . Kuopio . Kustannuskiila . 227 . 9516572391.
  15. Book: 1970 . Kuusi . Matti . etal . Kirjallisuuden lajeja . Suomen kirjallisuus . fi . 8 . Helsinki . Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura . 311 . 951-1-03307-7.
  16. Book: Immonen . Kari . 1987 . Ryssästä saa puhua... Neuvostoliitto suomalaisessa julkisuudessa ja kirjat julkisuuden muotona 1918–39 . fi . Helsinki . Otava . 14 . 951-1-09365-7.
  17. Book: Mäenpää . Jorma . 1958 . Sata vuotta sadun ja seikkailun mailla. Suomalaisen lasten- ja nuorisokirjallisuuden vaiheita. . fi . Helsinki . Valistus . 73–76.
  18. Book: 2005 . Suojala . Marja . Volotinen . Teresia . Lastenkirja aikansa kuvastimena . fi . Helsinki . BTJ Kirjastopalvelu . 30 . 951-692-597-9.
  19. Book: Bengtsson . Niklas . 2003 . Kirjallisuuspalkinnot Suomessa . fi . Helsinki . BTJ Kirjastopalvelu . 104 and 100 . 951-692-546-4.
  20. Book: Hirvonen . Maija . 2000 . Salanimet ja nimimerkit . Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seuran kirjaston julkaisuja . fi . 16 . Helsinki . BTJ Kirjastopalvelu . 702 . 9516924646 . 0357-2978.
  21. Book: 1981 . Launonen . Hannu . etal . Suomen kirjailijat 1917–1944. Pienoiselämäkerrat. Teosbibliografiat. Tutkimusviitteet. . Writers in Finland 1917–1944. Concise biographies. Bibliographies. Research references. . Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seuran toimituksia . fi . Helsinki . Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura . 395 . 951-717-238-9 . 0355-1768.
  22. Book: 2006 . Mäkinen . Riitta . etal . Klinge . Matti . Litzen . Aulikki . etal . Suomen kansallisbiografia . Studia biographica . fi . 8: von Qvanten–Sillanpää . Helsinki . Finnish Literature Society . 700–701 . 951-746-449-5 . 1456-2138.
  23. Book: 2006 . Lindgren . Liisa . etal . Klinge . Matti . Litzen . Aulikki . etal . Suomen kansallisbiografia . Studia biographica . fi . 8: von Qvanten–Sillanpää . Helsinki . Finnish Literature Society . 718–719 . 951-746-449-5 . 1456-2138.
  24. News: 8 April 1908 . Nimen muutos . Suomalainen Wirallinen Lehti . fi . 82/1908 . 3 . 17 July 2018 . Digital Collections of National Library of Finland.
  25. Book: Arponen . Antti O. . Kasila . Markku . Peltola . Veli-Matti . 2014 . He antoivat kaikkensa. Viime sodissa menehtyneet mestariurheilijat . fi . Helsinki . Auditorium . 160–161 . 978-952-7043-03-5.

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