Several early reports comparing Finnish or Hungarian with Mordvin, Mari or Khanty were additionally collected by Leibniz and edited by his assistant Johann Georg von Eckhart. In 1730, Philip Johan von Strahlenberg published his book Das Nord- und Ostliche Theil von Europa und Asia (The Northern and Eastern Parts of Europe and Asia), surveying the geography, peoples and languages of Russia.
Sajnovics published his results in 1770, arguing for a relationship based on several grammatical features.
In 1799, the Hungarian Sámuel Gyarmathi published the most complete work on Finno-Ugric to that date. Up to the beginning of the 19th century, knowledge on the Uralic languages spoken in Russia had remained restricted to scanty observations by travelers.
Still more extensive were the field research expeditions made in the 1840s by Matthias Castrén (1813–1852) and Antal Reguly (1819–1858), who focused especially on the Samoyedic and the Ob-Ugric languages, respectively.
Meanwhile, in the autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland, a chair for Finnish language and linguistics at the University of Helsinki was created in 1850, first held by Castrén. In 1883, the Finno-Ugrian Society was founded in Helsinki on the proposal of Otto Donner, which would lead to Helsinki overtaking St.
Otto Donner's model from 1879 is as follows: Ugric (Ugrian) * Hungarian * Ob-Ugric (Ob-Ugrian) ** Khanty ** Mansi Finno-Permic (Permian-Finnic) * Permic * Finno-Volgaic (Finno-Cheremisic, Finno-Mari) ** Volga-Finnic *** Mari *** Mordvinic ** Finno-Lappic (Finno-Saamic, Finno-Samic) *** Sami *** Finnic At Donner's time, the Samoyedic languages were still poorly known, and he was not able to address their position.
Meanwhile, in the autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland, a chair for Finnish language and linguistics at the University of Helsinki was created in 1850, first held by Castrén. In 1883, the Finno-Ugrian Society was founded in Helsinki on the proposal of Otto Donner, which would lead to Helsinki overtaking St.
Another late-19th-century Hungarian contribution is that of Ignácz Halász (1855–1901), who published extensive comparative material of Finno-Ugric and Samoyedic in the 1890s, and whose work is at the base of today's wide acceptance of the inclusion of Samoyedic as a part of Uralic.
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