Yngvar Sigurd Heikel (19 April 1889 – 1 September 1956) was a
Finland-Swedish ethnologist
Ethnology (from the grc-gre, ἔθνος, meaning 'nation') is an academic field that compares and analyzes the characteristics of different peoples and the relationships between them (compare cultural, social, or sociocultural anthropology) ...
.
Life and work
Heikel was born in
Helsinki
Helsinki ( or ; ; sv, Helsingfors, ) is the Capital city, capital, primate city, primate, and List of cities and towns in Finland, most populous city of Finland. Located on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, it is the seat of the region of U ...
,
Finland
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in 1889 to gymnastics teacher
Viktor Heikel
Frans Viktor Heikel (23 August 1842 – 27 July 1927) was a Finland-Swedish gymnastics teacher, known as "the father of Finnish school gymnastics".
Life
Heikel was born in Turku to educator and priest Henrik Heikel and Wilhelmina Johanna Scha ...
.
Among his family are aunt and uncle
Anna
Anna may refer to:
People Surname and given name
* Anna (name)
Mononym
* Anna the Prophetess, in the Gospel of Luke
* Anna (wife of Artabasdos) (fl. 715–773)
* Anna (daughter of Boris I) (9th–10th century)
* Anna (Anisia) (fl. 1218 to 1221)
...
and
Felix Heikel
Karl Felix Heikel (3 June 1844 – 20 May 1921) was a Finland-Swedish banker and politician. He was the son of priest and educator Henrik Heikel, brother of educators and Finnish Baptist pioneers Viktor and Anna Heikel, father of insurance direc ...
and grandfather
Henrik Heikel
Henrik Heikel (14 January 1808 – 14 March 1867) was a Finland-Swedish educator and priest.
Life
Heikel was born in Oulu, Finland in 1808. He began his studies in 1823, receiving his master of philosophy degree in 1832. Heikel became a lect ...
.
He graduated with a degree in philosophy in 1915 and was a
statistician
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It is common to combine statistical knowledge with expertise in other subjects, and statisticians may wor ...
at the
Bank of Finland
The Bank of Finland ( fi, Suomen Pankki, sv, Finlands Bank) is the central bank of Finland. It views itself as the fourth oldest surviving central bank in the world, after Sweden's Riksbank, the Bank of England, and the Bank of France.
History
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from 1921 to 1924 and from 1935.
However, he is best known for his research on folk culture in
Swedish-speaking Finland, especially on
folk dances and
folk costume
A folk costume (also regional costume, national costume, traditional garment, or traditional regalia) expresses an identity through costume, which is usually associated with a geographic area or a period of time in history. It can also indicat ...
s. Heikel sampled and categorized each village's form of folk costume. His work was also the main initiator of the founding of the Brage Costume Museum. He also charted the connection between living conditions and disease in different areas.
He was secretary of the , founded by musicologist
Otto Andersson, from 1916 and director of its costume bureau and village costume museum from 1923. He participated in the founding of the Finland Swedish Folk Dance Association and was its president from 1946 to 1955. He contributed to the collection ' (volume VI:B "", 1938) and his work was published in 1986 with an introduction and commentary by .
Heikel died in Helsinki in 1956.
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1889 births
1956 deaths
People from Helsinki
20th-century Finnish people
Finnish ethnologists
Swedish-speaking Finns