Castrén, Matthias Alexander (mätē'äs äleksän'dur kästrān') [key], 1813–52, Finnish philologist, one of the first scholars to study the Finno-Ugric languages. Castrén was long a professor at the Univ. of Helsingfors (now Helsinki).
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