# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/matti-kuusi
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:32:52.187Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/matti-kuusi"
name: "Matti Kuusi"
slug: "matti-kuusi"
description: "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."
tagline: "Finnish academic and writer (1914-1998)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Matti_Kuusi.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1914-03-25"
deathDate: "1998-01-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.31
  momentum:             11.53846153846154
  historical:           5.936177333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Matti Kuusi"
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  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%89_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%89"
    title: "ماتى كوسى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matti_Kuusi"
    title: "Matti Kuusi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matti_Kuusi"
    title: "Matti Kuusi"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matti_Kuusi"
    title: "Matti Kuusi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matti_Kuusi"
    title: "Matti Kuusi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matti_Kuusi"
    title: "Matti Kuusi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5393179"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump