Donner, Kai, 1888-1935
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ru04Among the Samoyed in Siberia
Among the Samoyed in SiberiaBook 1954
- Summary
- Karl Reinhold "Kai" Donner was a Finnish linguist, ethnographer and politician. He carried out expeditions to the Ob-Ugric and Samoyedic peoples in Siberia 1911–1914 and was docent of Uralic languages at the University of Helsinki from 1924. He was considered a pioneer of modern anthropological fieldwork methods, though his work is little known in the English-speaking world. Wikipedia
- Gender or Sex
- Male [1][2][3][4][5][6]
- Born
- 1888 [2]
- 1888-04-01 [6]
- Birth Place
- Helsinki [3][6]
- Died
- 1935 [2]
- 1935-02-12 [6]
- Death Place
- Helsinki [3][6]
- Country
- Finland [2]
- Language
- Swedish [3][5]
- Finnish [5]
- German [5]
- Occupation
- Politiķis [5]
- Valodnieks [5]
- Etnologs [5]
- explorer [6]
- linguist [6]
- politician [6]
- university teacher [6]
- military personnel [6]
- ethnologist [6]
- Profession
- Philologe [2]
- Employer
- University of Helsinki [6]
- Field of Activity
- Valodniecība [5]
- Etnoloģija [5]
- Educated at
- University of Cambridge [6]
- Country of Education
- United Kingdom [6]
- Yale LUX
- Entity [6]
- Sources
- 1. VIAF
- 2. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany)
- 3. Bibliothèque nationale de France
- 4. Library of Congress
- 5. National Library of Latvia
- 6. Wikidata
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