Kauppis-Heikki
1862–1920
Biography
Kauppis-Heikki was the name under which Heikki Kauppinen, a Finnish writer and schoolteacher, was known. He was born in Iisalmi on 7 June 1862 and died in Lapinlahti on 3 September 1920, both towns in the Savo region of eastern Finland. He worked as a teacher in Finland's folk schools, the village elementary schools of the countryside.
The available biographical details are sparse. They record that he married Johanna (Hanna) Korhonen in 1890, and that she died in 1927, seven years after him. They say little about the course of his literary work, so the details here are limited to what is well attested.
The book on this site, Laara: Kuvaus Savon kansan elämästä, takes the people of Savo as its subject, as its subtitle says: a description of the life of the Savo people. Because he was born and died in that same region, the book reads naturally as a portrait of the place he knew. The sources cited say little more about the book or his other writings, so this page does not go further.
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Books
Laara: Kuvaus Savon kansan elämästä
by Kauppis-Heikki
In a frost year, when the crops have failed across Finland, the cottager woman Laara sets out to find a better life for herself and her family. Kauppis-Heikki follows her ambition, her marriages and her hard bargains over two parts and many years of Savo village life, in a frank…
Summary written by Claude Opus 5.5.