# Matti Kuusi

> Matti Akseli Kuusi was a Finnish folklorist, paremiographer and paremiologist. He wrote several books and a number of articles on Finnish folklore. He was the first to have introduced the type system of proverbs similar to the Aarne-Thompson classification system of folklore, the Matti Kuusi international type system of proverbs. With encouragement from Archer Taylor he founded the journal Proverbium: Bulletin d'Information sur les Recherches Parémiologiques, published from 1965 to 1975 by the Society for Finnish Literature, which was later restarted as Proverbium: International Yearbook of Proverb Scholarship. He was born and died in Helsinki, a member of the noble family Granfelt, but his father had fennicized his original Swedish surname to express his political sympathies.

*Finnish academic and writer (1914-1998)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Academic ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Academics
- **Country:** Finland
- **Born:** 1914-03-25
- **Died:** 1998-01-16
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Fame
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