| The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07. |
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| Castrén, Matthias Alexander |
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(mät ´äs äl ksän´d r kästr n´) (KEY) , 181352, Finnish philologist, one of the first scholars to study the Finno-Ugric languages. Castrén was long a professor at the Univ. of Helsingfors (now Helsinki). |
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