Julia Stadius

Julia Stadius, née Tavaststjerna (11 January 1844, St. Petersburg – 22 December 1929, Helsinki) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish writer.

Life Julia Tavaststjerna was born on 11 January 1844 in St. Petersburg, where her father Carl Johan Tavaststjerna worked as a teacher at the Cadet College. Her mother was Hilda Maria Tavaststjerna. Her cousin is author Karl August Tavaststjerna, a central figure in Finland-Swedish literature around the turn of the 20th century. In 1850, the family moved to Helsinki where her father took the position of police chief. Tavaststjerna was educated mainly at home and only attended Blomqvist School in Helsinki for a short time. He served as the High Commissioner of the General Revision Court. The couple had three children, of whom the middle one, Thure Valter Stadius, became deaf at the age of three years old.

Work Stadius wrote in Swedish. Among her works are poems, narratives and children's fairy tales. Tankar, intryck, hågkomster upptecknade till minne av H[elsingfors] D[övstum] F[örening]s 20-årsdag den 12 februari 1915 (1915) (1918) Tili Zachris Topelius’ 100-års jubileum den 14 januari 1918 (1918) Prinsessan Ödåga (1919) (1922)