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Name: Aino Kallas  
   
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Date of Birth: 2nd August 1878
   
Place of Birth: Vyborg, Finland [now Vyborg, Russia]
   
Profession: Writer
 
 
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Aino Kallas (nee Krohn in 1878) was the daughter of Julius Krohn, an outstanding Finnish national figure, scientist and writer.

She married Oskar Kallas (b. 1868), an Estonian scholar, doctor of folklore and later diplomat. This international couple stood out in the small Estonian community. The prominent writer Aino Kallas and her husband Oskar Kallas during one of the most variegated periods in Estonia’s colourful history, the first half of the 20th century: overcoming the pressure of the expansion of Tsarist Russia, the emergence and development of a civic state, the whirlwind of revolutions in 1905 and 1917, the victorious War of Independence and the consequent Republic of Estonia.

The romanticism of youth was reinforced by National Romanticism.

Ayn Rand stated that her first name, 'Ayn' was an adaptation of the name of a Finnish writer. This may have been the Finnish-Estonian author Aino Kallas.

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http://www.einst.ee/literary/spring2001/12_01.htm

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