Kai Donner

Kai Donner
Donner, 1916
Born
Karl Reinhold Donner

(1888-04-01)1 April 1888
Helsinki, Grand Duchy of Finland, Russian Empire
Died12 February 1935(1935-02-12) (aged 46)
Helsinki, Finland
Resting placeHietaniemi Cemetery
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
Known forLinguist, ethnographer
Spouse
Margareta von Bondsdorff
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(m. 1914)​
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Helsinki

Karl Reinhold "Kai" Donner (1 April 1888 – 12 February 1935) was a Finnish linguist, ethnographer and politician. He carried out expeditions to the Ob-Ugric and Samoyedic peoples in Siberia 1911–1914 and was docent of Uralic languages at the University of Helsinki from 1924. He was considered a pioneer of modern anthropological fieldwork methods, though his work is little known in the English-speaking world.

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