Yrjö Blomstedt


Yrjö Reinhold Emanuel Blomstedt, was a Finnish historian. He was the son of architects Pauli E. Blomstedt and Märta Blomstedt. He studied history at the University of Helsinki receiving his PhD in 1958. Between 1960 and 1964 he was a docent in Finnish history at Helsinki University and in 1964 was appointed professor in legal history and Roman law.
Blomstedt was very interested in genealogy and was at various times chairman of the Finnish Genealogical Society. Many of his published works deal with personal historical figures, including biographies of Johan Albrecht Ehrenström and K. J. Ståhlberg, as well as judicial histories.

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