An avid reader, he studied at the University of Helsinki. He worked for more than twenty years at the University of Helsinki Library and other libraries in Helsinki before moving to Turku, where he became first a librarian at that city's municipal library, later, in November 1920, the first librarian of Turku's Finnish-language university.
An enthusiastic reader, he studied at the University of Helsinki. He worked for more than twenty years at the University of Helsinki Library and other libraries in Helsinki before relocating to Turku, where he initially became a librarian at that city's municipal library, subsequently becoming the first librarian of Turku's Finnish-language university in November 1920.