Jooseppi Julius Mikkola
Jooseppi Julius Mikkola (born July 6, 1866 in Ylöjärvi , Grand Duchy of Finland , Russian Empire , † September 28, 1946 in Helsinki ) was a Finnish linguist and Slavist .
In 1893 Mikkola married the later writer Maila Talvio .
Mikkola was professor of Slavic Philology at the University of Helsingfors from 1900 to 1934. He studied the contacts between the East Slavic and Baltic Finnish languages , Slavic formal theory, Indo-European and Slavic linguistic relationships as well as their history and literature in older times.
Jooseppi Julius Mikkola looked for evidence that the boundaries in the Treaty of Nöteborg extended to the Arctic Ocean .
In his work The Chronology of the Turkish Danube Bulgarians , Mikkola tried to explain the non-Slavic names in the Bulgarian Prince List through Turkish theories about their origin.
Mikkola wrote his scientific works in German .
In 1925 he was elected a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences .
bibliography
- Urslavische Grammar (3 vol., 1913–50), 1st volume
Web links
- Jooseppi Mikkola. 375 humanists. University of Helsinki Faculty of Humanities. 17th July 2015.
Individual evidence
- ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Jooseppi Julius Mikkola. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed October 6, 2015 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mikkola, Jooseppi Julius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Finnish linguist and Slavist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 6, 1866 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ylöjärvi |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 28, 1946 |
| Place of death | Helsinki |