Antti Amatus Aarne (5 December 1867 – 2 February 1925) was a Finnish

folklorist Folklore studies (also known as folkloristics, tradition studies or folk life studies in the UK) is the academic discipline devoted to the study of folklore. This term, along with its synonyms, gained currency in the 1950s to distinguish the ac ...

Background

Aarne was a student of Kaarle Krohn, the son of the folklorist Julius Krohn. He further developed their historic-geographic method of comparative folkloristics, and the initial version of what became the Aarne–Thompson classification system of classifying folktales, first published in 1910 and extended by

Stith Thompson Stith Thompson (March 7, 1885 – January 10, 1976) was an American folklore studies, folklorist: he has been described as "America's most important folklorist". He is the "Thompson" of the Aarne–Thompson–Uther Index, which indexes Folklore, ...

first in 1927 and again in 1961. Early in February 1925, Aarne died in

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where he had been a lecturer at the

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since 1911 and where he had held a position as Professor extraordinarius since 1922.

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* Academic staff of the University of Helsinki Finnish folklorists 1867 births 1925 deaths People from Pori People from the Grand Duchy of Finland Finnish lecturers {{cultural-anthropologist-stub