Word: helenius
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...Helenius, Seppala, Trygg
...example: my good friend, the late Matti Helenius, who had published several books under the name Matti Helenius, was well known under that name all over Europe. He sought to avoid confusion by attaching his Finnish family name to his accepted name, Helenius, and thus became Matti Helenius-Seppala...
...prior to this eruption of family names, Helenius had married a school teacher, Maria Alexandria (Alii) Trygg. The family names became more and more confusing. It was finally decided part of these names should be dropped and that the bride should be known as Alii Trygg-Helenius and let it go at that...
...even this failed to iron out all of the family complication. Helenius had an unmarried sister who insisted that she was not a Helenius and not a Trygg. So far as she was concerned there seemed to be no way of solving the problem except to discard the two family names and limit her name to Seppala. This was done...
...Matti Helenius-Seppala, Alii Trygg-Helenius and Madame Seppala are all dead, but they have left behind them a record of social and philanthropic activities that will carry their names down through many generations of Finnish history...
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