Björn Collinder, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Björn Collinder

Swedish linguist

Date of Birth: 22-Jul-1894

Place of Birth: Sundsvall, Västernorrland County, Sweden

Date of Death: 20-May-1983

Profession: translator, university teacher, linguist

Nationality: Sweden

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Björn Collinder (22 July 1894 – 20 May 1983) was a Swedish linguist.
His name is sometimes spelled "Bjorn Collinder" in English-language contexts. Collinder was born in Sundsvall, Sweden. For much of his life he was a professor of Finno-Ugric languages at Uppsala University in Sweden. He was one of the world's leading experts in the Uralic languages, noted for his Comparative Grammar of the Uralic Languages (1960), which is still often cited today. He died in Vienna, Austria.