Otto Donner

Otto Donner (15 December 1835, Kokkola – 17 September 1909, Helsinki) was a Finnish linguist and politician.

He was professor of Sanskrit and Comparative Indo-European linguistics at the University of Helsinki, but also studied the Finno-Ugric languages.

[3] His mother tongue was Swedish, but he was a fennoman by conviction.

He had many children: Ossian, Otto Jr., Uno, Kai, Harry and Eva Louise.

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Bust of Otto Donner by Walter Runeberg