Antti Amatus Aarne (December 5, 1867 in Pori – February 2, 1925 in

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) was a

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folklorist.

Background

Antti was a student of

Kaarle Krohn Kaarle Krohn (10 May 1863 – 19 July 1933) was a Finnish folklorist, professor and developer of the geographic-historic method of folklore research. He was born into the influential Krohn family of Helsinki. Krohn is best known outside of Finlan ...

, the son of the folklorist

Julius Krohn Julius Leopold Fredrik Krohn (19 April 1835 – 28 August 1888) was a Finnish folk poetry researcher, professor of Finnish literature, poet, hymn writer, translator and journalist. He was born in Viipuri and was of Baltic German origin. Krohn wo ...

. He further developed their

historic-geographic method Julius Leopold Fredrik Krohn (19 April 1835 – 28 August 1888) was a Finnish folk poetry researcher, professor of Finnish literature, poet, hymn writer, translator and journalist. He was born in Viipuri and was of Baltic German origin. Krohn wo ...

of comparative folkloristics, and developed the initial version of what became the Aarne–Thompson classification system of

classifying folktales Morphology, broadly, is the study of form or structure. Folkloristic morphology, then, is the study of the structure of folklore and fairy tales. Some pioneering work in this field was begun in the nineteenth century, such as Marian Roalfe Cox's ...

, first published in 1910 and extended by Stith Thompson first in 1927 and again in 1961. Early in 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

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since 1922.

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* Academic personnel of the University of Helsinki Finnish folklorists 1867 births 1925 deaths Folklorists People from Pori {{cultural-anthropologist-stub