Aatto Suppanen

Who was Aatto Suppanen?

Adolf Suppanen was a Finnish writer, journalist and translator. He used the nom de plume of Aatto S.

By the late 1800s Suppanen had become a prolific translator into Finnish, primarily from Swedish and German, and he was the first professional literary translator into Finnish. Two well-known English-language works that he translated were Lew Wallace's Ben-Hur, and Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin

On 1 June 1882, he married Alma Erika Henriette Bonsdorff, from Jokioinen, the daughter of Erik Napoleon Bonsdorff and Henriette Rotkirch. The couple had four children, Aino, Toini, Viljo and Alma.