Brief Life History of Sophia
When Sophia Törmänen was born on 29 August 1740, in Kuusamo, Oulu, Finland, her father, Heikki Heikinpoika Törmänen, was 51 and her mother, Margetta Juhontytär Määttä, was 44. She died on 24 April 1741, in her hometown, at the age of 0, and was buried in Kuusamo, Oulu, Finland.
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- Sophia Törmänen, Kuusamo kuolleet 1741
- Sophia Törmänen, Kuusamo syntyneet 1740
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Name Meaning
From the Greek word meaning ‘wisdom’. The Eastern cult of St Sophia arose as a result of misinterpretation of the phrase Hagia Sophia ‘holy wisdom’ as if it meant ‘St Sophia’. The name became popular in England in the 17th and 18th centuries—the heroine of Fielding's novel Tom Jones ( 1749 ) is called Sophia Weston—and has been increasing in popularity since the 1990s. In Scotland it has been used as an Anglicized form of the Gaelic name Beathag .
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