Aleksander Auvinen

Aleksander Auvinen (23 December 1857, in Impilahti – 29 August 1918) 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 1881. He was one of the founders of Vartija magazine which was started in 1888.^[1] Auvinen was the vicar of Impilahti from 1898 to 1906 and the vicar of Savonlinna-Sääminki from 1906 to 1918. He was politically active as a Member of the Diet of Finland.^[2]