Kai Donner
Finnish politician and linguist (1888-1935) · Finland · On the map · Politicians · Died at 46
Karl Reinhold "Kai" Donner was a Finland Swede linguist, ethnographer and political activist. He carried out expeditions to the Samoyedic and Ket peoples in Siberia between 1911 and 1914, and was docent of Uralic languages at the University of Helsinki from 1924.
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A central figure in Finland's independence movement, he was active in the Jäger movement and later became a prominent leader of the Lapua movement. He is also known for writing the first authoritative biography of Mannerheim.