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Axel Olof Freudenthal (12 December 1836 – 2 June 1911), was a Finland-Swedish philologist and politician.
He was born in Siuntio, and studied at the University of Helsinki where the nationalistic movement struggle between the Fennomans and the Svecomans was raging. He would side with the latter working against the Finnification of the society. His tools were extreme racism and radicalism. He considered Swedish and Finnish speaking Finns belong into two separate races. Aryan master race Swedes and lower, subhuman Turanic Finns. It could be said that A.O Freudenhtal was pioneering the values that Nazi-movement was later build on.[1] [2]
Freudenthal was appointed a docent in 1866 in Old Norse language and wrote his doctoral thesis on the dialect of Närpes in 1878. He was a Professor of Swedish language and literature between 1878-1904. He died in Helsinki. His life's work was documented by Arvid Mörne in the book Axel Olof Freudenthal och den finlandssvenska nationalitetstanken (1927).
The Swedish People's Party issues a decoration named after him, the Axel Olof Freudenthal Medal. Many Silver and Bronze medals have been given to individuals since 1937, but only one Gold medal has been issued - to Elisabeth Rehn in 1994.[1]
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