Lennart Hohenthal

Life and work

The story behind the role.

Finland Swedish political activist.

Karl Lennart Hohenthal (25 March 1877 – 13 August 1951), known from 1905 as Eric Alvén, was a Finnish activist. Hohenthal became known for assassinating the Procurator Eliel Soisalon-Soininen on 6 February 1905, during the first period of the Russification of Finland. He was sentenced to life imprisonment but escaped from prison in October the same year and travelled via Sweden to England, where he lived the rest of his life under the name Eric Alvén, working as a physiotherapist and businessman.

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