Ahlquist

Ahlquist, AUGUST ENGELBERT, Finnish philologist, was born 7th August 1826; studied philosophy and philology at Helsingfors; in 1847 founded a Finnish newspaper, the Suometar; travelled through Northern Russia and Siberia (1853-58); and afterwards became professor of Finnish in the university of Helsingfors. Besides grammatical and lexicographical works, he has published, in Finnish, an account of his travels, a volume of poems, and several translations from the German. He died 20th November 1889.