Alexander Haggerty prong
Alexander Haggerty Krappe (* 1894 in Boston ; † November 30, 1947 ) was an American Romance scholar and ethnologist of German descent.
life and work
Krappe grew up in Berlin, studied there from 1915 to 1916, then at the University of Iowa . He received his doctorate from the University of Chicago in 1919 with the thesis Alliteration in the Chanson de Roland and in the Carmen de prodicione Guenonis (Iowa City 1921) and was a lecturer at Columbia University , as well as professor of Romance languages at the University of Minnesota .
Krappe married in 1919 Edith Smith, the daughter of the mathematician Professor Arthur G. Smith of the University of Iowa and the folklorist Grace Partridge Smith (1869-1959).
Other works
- The Legend of Roderick, last of the Visigoth kings, and the Ermanarich Cycle, Heidelberg 1923
- Balor with the evil eye. Studies in Celtic and French literature, Lancaster, Pennsylvania 1927, 1978 Philadelphia
- Études de mythologie et de folklore germaniques, Paris 1928
- The Science of Folk-lore, New York / London 1930, 1962, 1965, 1974
- Mythology universal, Paris 1930
- La genèse des mythes, Paris 1938, 1952
- (Translator with Francis Peabody Magoun ) The Grimms' German folk tales, Carbondale 1960
literature
- Anne C. Burson: Alexander Haggerty Krappe and his science of comparative folklore , in: Journal of the Folklore Institute 19, 1982, pp. 167-195
Web links
- Literature by and about Alexander Haggerty Krappe in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Krappe, Alexander Haggerty |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Krappe, Alexandre H .; Krappe, AH |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American Romance philologist and ethnologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1894 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Boston |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 30, 1947 |