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 avid reader, he studied at the University of Helsinki. He worked extensively at the University of Helsinki Library and other libraries in Helsinki before relocating to Turku, where he first served as a librarian for the city's municipal library and later became the inaugural Finnish-language university librarian in November 1920.