Bror Torsten Steinby (formerly "Rosbäck") (25 August 1908 – 16 October 1995) was a Finnishhistorian.
Steinby was son of businessman Carl-Gustaf Rosbäck and bookkeeper Anna Leander-Steinby.[1]
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.[2]
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 (principal 1944–1947).[1] 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.[2]
1945 – The Eternal City in Finland's Poetry (special edition from Nordisk Tidskrift)
1951 – Finland in the Eternal City (Amos Andersons förlag)
1953 – Roman Pictures (with drawings by Henrik Tikkanen)
1953 – Villa Lante (published by the Institutum Romanum Finlandiae, expanded edition 1957)
1954 – Villa Lante ai Gianicolo (together with Adriano Prandi)
1956 – Roman Journalism: Written News Service and Opinion in the Time of Cicero (academic thesis)
1958 – On Gianicolo (friend letter to Amos Anderson on his birthday, September 3, 1958)
1963 – Finland's Newspaper Press: A Historical Overview (published by the Swedish Federation of Finnish Associations, the Sponsored Town Movement in the series Finland Today, revised edition 1964)
