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Kustaa Gideon Vilkuna (born 26 October 1902 in Nivala – died 6 April 1980 in Kirkkonummi) was a Finnish ethnologist, linguist and historian. Vilkuna was a member of the Academic Karelia Society (AKS) until resigning in 1932 and again from 1942–1944. He was appointed a professor of ethnology at the University of Helsinki in 1950. In politics, he was a member of the Agrarian League and the Minister of Education in Reino Kuuskoski's cabinet. He was also closely associated with then-president Urho Kekkonen, being even described as the éminence grise of Kekkonen.[1]

His daughter Kirsti Vilkuna is the widow of the prominent Finnish industrialist Pekka Herlin. His grandsons Janne Vilkuna and Kustaa H. J. Vilkuna are historians as well.

References

External links

• Kustaa Vilkuna in 375 humanists – 12 April 2015. Faculty of Arts, University of Helsinki.

На других языках

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- [en] Kustaa Vilkuna

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[ru] Вилькуна, Куста Гидеон

Ку́ста Ги́деон Ви́лькуна (фин. Kustaa Gideon Vilkuna; 26 октября 1902, Нивала, Великое княжество Финляндское — 6 апреля 1980, Киркконумми, Финляндия) — финский этнограф, этнолог, лингвист, историк, политик, общественный и государственный деятель. Доктор философии (1936), профессор финно-угорской этнологии Хельсинкского университета (с 1950). Член Финской Академии наук (1959).

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