Torsten Steinby
Bror Torsten Steinby was a Finnish historian.
Steinby was son of businessman Carl-Gustaf Rosbäck and bookkeeper Anna Leander-Steinby.
Steinby graduated from the Svenska normallyceum i Helsingfors in 1928, became a candidate of philosophy at the University of Helsinki in 1935 and defended his doctoral thesis in 1956 with the thesis Roman journalism. He studied at the Swedish Archaeological Institute in Rome in 1939.
Steinby worked as a lecturer in Latin and Swedish at the Svenska normallyceum i Helsingfors 1934–1935 and as a teacher of history and Swedish at the National Board of Education for Boys and Girls 1936–1947. He served as director of the Finnish Rome Institute from 1953 to 1955 and was editor-in-chief of Hufvudstadsbladet from 1960 to 1974, after having been acting editor-in-chief and editorial director from 1947 to 1959.
Steinby was chairman of the from 1957 to 1959 and of the Society of [Swedish Literature in Finland] from 1973 to 1979.
Steinby was married from 1936 to 1982 to and father of
Awards and distinctions
- 1980 – Prize from the Society of Swedish Literature in Finland
- 1984 –
- 1986 – Swedish Academy Finland Prize