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See also:LONNROT, See also:ELIAS (1802-1884) , Finnish philologist and discoverer of the Kalevala, was See also:born at Nyland in See also:Finland on the gth of See also:April 1802. He was an See also:apothecary's assistant, but entered the university of See also:Abo in 1822, and after taking his successive degrees became a physician in 1832. But before this, as See also:early as 1827, he had begun to publish contributions to the study of the See also:ancient Finnish See also:language, and to collect the See also:national See also:ballads and folk-See also:lore, a See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field which was at that See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time uncultivated. In 1833 he settled as a See also:doctor in the See also:country See also:district of Kajana, and began to travel throughout Finland and the adjoining See also:Russian provinces in his leisure time, See also:collecting songs and legends. In this way he was able to put together the See also:great epic of Finland, the Kalevala,the first edition of which he published in 1835; he continued to add to it, and in 1849 issued a larger and completer See also:text. In 184o Lonnrot issued his important collection of the Kanteletar, or folk-songs of ancient Finland, which he had taken down from oral tradition. The See also:Proverbs of Finland followed in 1842. In 1853, on the See also:death of See also:Castren, Lonnrot became See also:professor of the Finnish language and literature at the high school of See also:Helsingfors; he retired from this See also:chair in 1862. He died on the loth of See also:March 1884.
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