Heikki Kirkinen

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Heikki Kirkinen (22 September 1927 in

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.

Publications

  • Les origines de la conception moderne de l'hommemachine (1960)
  • Le monde kalévaléen en France et en Finlande (1987, with Jean Perrot)
  • Informatique et développement des régions marginales (1988, editor)
  • Protection and development of our intangible heritage (1999, editor)
  • Karjala idän kulttuuripiirissä, 1963
  • Karjala taistelukenttänä, (Karjala idän ja lännen välissä, II), 1976,
  • Termiitti vai enkeli, ajatuksia kulttuurievoluutiosta, SKS (2002)
  • Pohjois-Karjalan kalevaisen perinteen juuret, 1988,

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