Kai Donner

Kai Donner, actually Karl Reinhold Donner ( born April 1, 1888 in Helsinki, † February 12, 1935 ) was a Finnish linguist, ethnographer and politician. He was one of the founders of the Finno - Ugric and Samojedistik.

Youth

Kai Donner ( actually Karl Reinhold thunder) was born into a respected family Helsinki professor. His father, Senator Otto Donner was at the University of Helsinki from 1875 to 1903 professor of Sanskrit and comparative linguistics, Explorer to Siberia and Mongolia, and in 1883 one of the founders of the Finno - Ugrian Society.

Uralic

Kai Donner studied in Helsinki and in 1908 in Budapest and later in Cambridge languages ​​and ethnography. He devoted himself to the study of the early Uralic languages. From 1911 to 1913 and 1914 he was involved in two linguistic and ethnographic expeditions to Siberia, including the people of the Nenets.

Kai Donner came before the First World War for the separation of Finland from the Tsarist rule. From 1916 to 1918, he had to live because of the recruitment of Finnish separatists in exile in Sweden and Germany. During the Finnish Civil War he was on the side of the bourgeoisie ( "white " ) is active and served as the adjutant to the commander in chief, General Mannerheim.

From 1924 Donner was a lecturer in Uralic Studies at the University of Helsinki. Groundbreaking was mainly his research into Selkupischen and Kamassischen. In the 1920s and 1930s, he was an influential member of the right-wing Lapua Movement. Thunder, even Finland Swede, but also strove for the recognition of the Swedish in the Finnish state.

Private life

Kai Donner is the father of the Finnish writer, film producer and politician Jörn Donner.

Main Releases

  • "A Samoyed Epic ". Helsinki, 1913
  • " In the Samoyed in Siberia". Stuttgart, 1926
  • " Samoyedic vocabularies ". Helsinki, 1932 ( = Suomalais - ugrilaisen seuran toimituksia 64)
  • " Ethnological Notes about the Yenisey - Ostyak ( in the Turukhansk region ) ". Helsinki, 1933 ( = Suomalais - ugrilaisen seuran toimituksia 66)
  • Joki, A. J. ( Ed.): " Kai Donner Kammasisches dictionary along with voice samples and main features of the grammar ." Helsinki, 1944 ( = lexicons Societatis Fenno - Ugricae VIII)
  • " La Sibérie: La vie en Sibérie -Les temps anciens. L' espèce humaine ", Volume 6, Paris, 1946
  • " Ketica: materials from the Ketischen or Jenisseiostjakischen ". Helsinki, 1955 ( = Suomalais - ugrilaisen seuran toimituksia 108)
  • Alatalo, Jarmo: " Sölkupisches Dictionary of records by Kai Donner, UT Sirelius and Jarmo Alatalo ". 2004
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