Raimo Aulis Anttila


Raimo Aulis Anttila was a Finnish linguist and professor of Indo-European linguistics at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Biography

Raimo Aulis Anttila was born in Finland in 1935. He was a professor of comparative linguistics at the University of Helsinki from 1971 to 1976. He was appointed a professor of Indo-European linguistics at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1976. Anttila was also an authority on Finno-Ugric languages. Along with Marija Gimbutas, Edgar C. Polomé, and Roger Pearson, Anttila was a cofounder of the Journal of Indo-European Studies, and he was a member of its editorial committee in the 1970s. Anttila was elected a corresponding member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters in 1995. Anttila retired from UCLA as a professor emeritus.

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