Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I puta a Gripenberg i te Whare Wānanga o Helsinki i te tau 1907, a, i whiwhi i tana Paetahi o te Paetahi o Helsinki i te tau 1911. Mai i te 1908-1909 i ako ano ia i te Whare Wananga o Oxford me te Kura Ohaoha o Ranana i Ingarangi. I te mutunga ka whiwhi tohu ia i te ture mai i te Whare Wananga o Uppsala i Sweden, i te tau 1917. Kātahi anō ka noho ia hei kaitiaki tūmataiti mō tōna pāpā mō tētahi wā poto i mua i tana neke ki Finland ki te uru atu ki te rōpū o te
pakanga ā-iwi i roto i te White Guard.