Ilmari Manninen

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

Life

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

In 1929 he moved to Helsinki to take up the post of head of the ethnographic department of the Finnish National Museum and lectured on Finno-Ugric ethnography at the University of Helsinki. After returning from a one-year study trip to Hungary , Czechoslovakia and the Balkans , he caught a cold with a high fever while swimming and died of it on July 14, 1935 in Helsinki.

Works

  • The Demonic Diseases in Finnish Folk Superstition: Comparative Folk Medicine , FFC 45, Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, Helsingfors 1922.
  • On the Aims and Limits of Ethnography in Estonia , Opening lecture given on October 16, 1924 at the University of Tartu
  • Kannud , with an extract in German; 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 a presentation in German; JG Kruger Tartu 1927.
  • Guide to the ethnographic collections: National Museum of Estonia, Eesti Rahva Museum, Tartu 1928.
  • The material culture of Estonia , 3 volumes, JG Krüger, Tartu 1931 ff.
  • The Finnish-Ugric peoples , Harrassowitz, Leipzig 1932.
  • Means of locomotion, transport and clothing , Suomen Murimaismisttryhdisys, Helsinki 1957,
  • Facsimile printing : Etnograafiline sõnastik: Eesti asjalise wvanovara põhjal . Tartu 1993.

literature

  • Adam Fischer: An appreciation of Ilmari Manninen . In: Baltic Countries . Volume 1, 1935, pp. 233, 290 .
  • Kustaa Vilkuna: Ilmari Manninen . In: Kansatieteellinen Arkisto . tape 1 , 1957, pp. 8-10 .
  • Kristin Kuutma / Tiiu Jago (Ed.): Studies in Estonian Folkloristics and Ethnology. A Reader and Reflexive History , Tartu University Press, Tartu 2005 ISBN 9949-11-110-2

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personal data
SURNAME Manninen, Ilmari
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Manninen, Ilmari Justus Andreas (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish ethnographer
DATE OF BIRTH September 2, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Vyborg
DATE OF DEATH June 14, 1933
Place of death Helsinki