Heikki Keskinen

Heikki Kirkinen (22 September 1927 in Kuusjärvi – 9 January 2018) was a Finnish historian who was professor of Finnish and European history at the University of Eastern Finland in Joensuu, Finland. He has been a visiting professor in the Finnish language, literature and culture at Sorbonne, 1966–1970.
Kirkinen has written many books about the Karelian history and the Karelian identity. One of his main interests was music; he has studied musicology and even composed music himself.

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