Eirik Hornborg
Eirik Hornborg was a politician, teacher, rhetorician, author and one of Finland’s leading and most prolific historical writers, with much of his work focusing on his country's military history. He is credited with over 1400 published works, including 54 books. He had seen brief wartime service at the age of 36 as a volunteer in a German jaeger battalion fighting the Russians on the eastern front during the First World War and wrote of his experiences in a memoir. He served as chairman of the Society of Swedish Literature in Finland for over a decade and received honorary doctorates from the University of Stockholm and the University of Helsinki.
Books
- The Kingdom Torn Apart : The Finnish War of 1808-09 Author
- Carl Gustav Armfelt and the Struggle for Finland During the Great Northern War Author
