He was a
Finnish linguist. He went to Turku University first Finnish
language and related language professor. He published his
doctoral thesis "Finland's south-western dialects in 1901. He
then went to the University of Helsinki, the Finnish language
and literature, an associate professor from 1903, three
semesters with E.N. Setälä, authorities preferred the Finnish
language and literature professor and Finnish Philology
assistant (associate professor) since 1914. In addition, he was
Finnish Business College teacher in 1908-1919. In 1921, he was
appointed to the University of Turku, the first Finnish and
related language professor. He wrote a dozen scientific books,
as well as almost two hundred articles published. In particular,
he studied Finnish dialects, and the loaned the oldest book in
Finnish, terminology, he then went to the Karelian and Estonian
languages. He made a number of large-scale expeditions and
raised in southern Estonia and northern Latvia extensive
collections, which remained unpublished. He brought at the age
of 22 in 1895, almost 14.000 word to the list of "Tyrvään
dialect dictionary." Dictionary published explanations and
examples of completed in two phases in 2008 and 2009. A
1353-page book is one of the largest local dialect dictionaries
in Finland.