Elsa Enäjärvi-Haavio

As a result, in 1947 she was appointed docent of Finnish and folk poetics at the University of Helsinki.

After completing her school education in 1919, she became a student of Finnish and Scandinavian history at the University of Helsinki, one of the first in independent Finland.

[3] Her fellow student Martti Haavio fell in love with her, as evidenced in the poems he wrote about her in his album Nuoret runoilijat (Young poets, 1924) and later works.

[3] From 1921, Elsa (who changed her name to Enäjärvi in 1922) published literary reviews in magazines and newspapers.

[3] Making numerous trips to Estonia and Sweden, she researched and collected folk poetry and folk stories, publishing her findings in articles translated into Swedish, German, French, Estonian and English.