Velta Ruke-Dravina, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Latvian-born Swedish linguist, folklorist, professor
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Place of Birth: Valmiera, Latvia
About Velta Ruke-Dravina
- Velta Ruke-Dravina (Velta Ruke-Dravina; January 25, 1917 – May 7, 2003), was a Latvian-born Swedish linguist and folklorist, as well as a professor in Baltic languages at Stockholm University.
- Ruke-Dravina's research interests included children's language, language contact, and dialectology.
- Her doctoral thesis was about diminutives in Latvian language.
- She held the only professorship in Baltic languages outside the Baltics and had a leading role in developing the teaching program on the subject at Stockholm University.
- In 1980, she was elected as a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities.
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