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Karl Otto Johan Blåfield
1823–1886
A 19th-century Finnish physician and civic writer, he is best remembered for helping document Tampere at a landmark moment in the city's history. His surviving work offers a local, carefully observed view of urban life in Finland in the late 1800s.
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Tampereen kaupunki : Muisto Sen Satavuotis-Juhlastansa Lokakuun 1. päivänä 1879
by Karl Otto Johan Blåfield, Henrik August Reinholm
About the author
Karl Otto Johan Blåfield (1823–1886) was a Finnish doctor who served as a city physician and later held the honorary title of hovineuvos. Records from the Finnish Literature Society list him in the medical field, and library authority data identifies him as both a physician and an author.
As a writer, he is associated above all with Tampereen kaupunki: Muisto Sen Satavuotis-Juhlastansa Lokakuun 1. päivänä 1879, a commemorative work on the city of Tampere written with Henrik August Reinholm. The book gathers historical and statistical material for Tampere's centennial celebration, which gives his writing a strong documentary value as well as local color.
Although not widely known today as a literary figure, Blåfield's work remains useful to readers interested in Finnish urban history and the everyday intellectual life of the 1800s. He also appears in later biographical records through his family, including references identifying him as the father of physician and politician Otto Johan Blåfield.