Nikolai Anderson
Nikolai Karl Adolf Anderson was a Baltic German philologist who specialized in comparative linguistics of FinnoUgric languages.
Anderson was born in the village Kulina, Estonia close to the town Wesenberg. After receiving private tuition in Saint Petersburg he attended the GouvernementsGymnasium in Reval and in 1865 he enrolled in the University of Dorpat to study philology, where he was a student of Leo Meyer who in the same year had been appointed as the universitys professor of Germanistics and Comparative philology. While at university he became interested in FinnoUgric languages and quickly became an expert in the field.
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