Kustaa Vilkuna

Kustaa Gideon Vilkuna (26 October 1902 in Nivala – 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 to 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.

[1] His daughter Kirsti Vilkuna is the widow of the prominent Finnish industrialist Pekka Herlin.

Kustaa Vilkuna (right) with President Urho Kekkonen