Matias Putkonen
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Gender:
Male
Birth:
4 March 1822
Death:
26 February 1868
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Biography
Matias Putkonen (4 March 1822, Kerimäki – 26 February 1868, Tuusula) was a Finnish Lutheran priest and politician. He studied theology at the University of Helsinki and was ordained a priest of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland in 1848. Putkonen worked as a parish priest in Jaakkima from 1848 to 1855 and in Tuusula from 1855 until his death in 1868. He was elected Member of the Diet of Finland in 1867.