Henrik Meinander
Carl Henrik Meinander (born 19 May 1960 in Helsinki), is a Finnish historian, PhD 1994. From 2002 Meinander is the keeper of the Swedish-speaking professorship in history (after Matti Klinge) at Helsinki University. He is the son of the famous archaeologist Carl Fredrik Meinander.
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Henrik Meinander at Helsinki Book Fair, 2016
Meinander has focused on the history of gymnastics in his doctors dissertation Towards a bourgeois manhood (1994) and Lik martallen, som rågfältet (1996). In Finlands historia, part 4 (1999) he appears as an unbiased interpreter of the Finnish republics history. He has also engaged himself in the public debate as columnist in the newspaper Hufvudstadsbladet.
He is a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences since 2002.
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