1914 - 1998
Matti Kuusi Finnish Writer
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| First Name |
Matti
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| Last Name |
Kuusi
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| Birthday |
25th March, 1914
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| Birthplace |
Helsinki
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| Died |
16th January, 1998
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| Zodiac Sign |
Aries
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| Nationality |
Finnish
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| Occupation |
Writer
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Matti Akseli Kuusi (25 March 1914 in Helsinki – 16 January 1998 in Helsinki) 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 a member of the noble family Granfelt, but his father had fennicized his original Swedish surname to express his political sympathies.
