Ilmari Manninen

Ilmari Justus Andreas Manninen ( born September 2, 1894 in Vyborg, † June 14, 1933 in Helsinki) was a Finnish ethnographer.

Life

Ilmari Manninen attended from 1912 to 1916, the University of Helsinki and continued his focus on the Finno-Ugric ethnography and history, as well as on the Finnish language and literature. In 1919 he founded the City Museum in Naantali, where he worked until 1922 as a teacher at the local school. In 1922 he received his Ph.D. and was appointed director of the Estonian National Museum in Tartu in the same year. His inaugural lecture at the University of Tartu ( German: Dorpat ) he held on 16 October 1924.

In 1929, he moved to Helsinki in order to there to accept the post of the head of the ethnographic department of the Finnish National Museum and lectured at the University of Helsinki on Finno- Ugric ethnography. After his return from a year-long study trip to Hungary, Czechoslovakia and the Balkans, he retired while swimming a cold with a high fever and died from it on July 14, 1935 in Helsinki.

Works

• The dämonistischen diseases in Finnish folk superstition: Comparative folk medicine, FFC 45, Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, Helsingfors 1922.
• Kannud, with a German summary; Etnograafilised Monogaafiad No. 1, Kirjastsühisus (publishing company) Loodus, Tartu 1926.
• Estonian gloves, Etnograafilised Monograafiad No. 2, Loodus, Tartu 1927.
• Eesti rahvariiete ajalugu. German: history of Estonian folk costumes, with presentation in German; J. G. Krüger Tartu 1927.
• Guide to the ethnographic collections: Estonian National Museum, Eesti Rahva Museum, Tartu 1928.
• The material culture of Estonia, 3 volumes, JG Krueger, Tartu 1931 et seq.
• The Finno-Ugric peoples, Harrassowitz, Leipzig 1932.
• Locomotion and transport as well as clothing, Suomen Murimaismisttryhdisys, Helsinki 1957
• Facsimile Pressure: Etnograafiline sõnastik: Eesti asjalise wvanovara põhjal. Tartu 1993.