Joel Lehtonen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Joel Lehtonen

Finnish writer, translator, critic and journalist

Date of Birth: 27-Nov-1881

Place of Birth: Haukiniemi, Eastern Finland Regional State Administrative Agency, Finland

Date of Death: 20-Nov-1934

Profession: writer, poet, translator, journalist, critic, linguist

Nationality: Finland

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Joel Lehtonen (11 November 1881 – 20 November 1934) was a Finnish author, translator, critic and journalist.
He was born in Sääminki (now part of Savonlinna).
His childhood was fatherless and poverty-stricken, his mother suffered from mental frailties and Joel himself was forced into paupery.
Joel's foster mother supported his schooling and Lehtonen was able to study literature for a few years in the University of Helsinki, but dropped out without completing a degree. As an author, he began as a neoromanticist, but after the Finnish Civil War his outlook transformed into deep pessimism and disenchanted scepticism. Having suffered for years from various ailments, he committed suicide by hanging himself with a rope, that had been used to wrap up a parcel of books, in November 1934.