WICHMANN Yrjö

WICHMANN Yrjö (8.9.1868–3.5.1932), Finnish linguist, folklorist. Doctor of Philosophy (1897). In 1891–92 and 1894, he collected folklore and dialectological materials among the Udmurts of Vyatskaya and Ufimskaya gu­berniyas (provinces) and other regions of Rus­ sia. V.’s materials on Udmurt folklore were included in the publication “Samples of Udmurt speech” (1893, 1901).

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