Kaarlo Bergbom

Kaarlo Bergbom (2 October 1843, Viipuri – 17 January 1906) was a Finnish theatre director.

He was joint director of the Finnish National Theatre with his sister Emilie Bergbom from its foundation in 1872 until her death in 1905.

[1] He wrote (though very little) as a playwright, and he was responsible for introducing a number of important Finnish dramatists, particularly Minna Canth, and Finnish translations of William Shakespeare and other foreign writers.

Bergbom also founded the magazine Kirjallinen Kuukausilehti.

He was the brother of senator Ossian Wuorenheimo as well as Emilie Bergbom.