August Engelbert Ahlquist, a Finnish philologist and poet, professor of philology and Finnish literature at Helsingfors, born at Kuo-pio, Aug. 7, 1826. He is distinguished for his philological and ethnographical investigations, especially those in respect to the dialects and races of the Uralo-Altaic family. He published the results of his researches in Finland and Russia in a work entitled Muistelmia matkoil-ta Wenajdlla ruosina 1853-'8 (Helsingfors, 1860). He is also the author of a grammar of the language of the almost extinct Wot tribe (Wotisk Grammatik). In 1847 he founded at Helsingfors a journal entitled Suometar (Finland). His collected poetry has been published under the title of Sakenia ("Sparks"). He has also made Finnish translations of several of Schiller's works.