Alfred Haas (folklorist)

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Alfred Haas (born July 8, 1860 in Bergen on Rügen ; † July 27, 1950 there ; full name Alfred Moritz Wilhelm Gottlieb Haas ) was a German historian , folklorist and high school teacher . He is considered to be the most important collector of sagas in Western Pomerania .

Life and accomplishments

Alfred Haas was born on July 8, 1860 in Bergen on Rügen, the son of a district secretary. From 1872 to 1878 he attended the Putbus pedagogy on Rügen . He then studied ancient languages ​​and history at the University of Greifswald . In 1884 he was promoted to Dr. phil. doctorate, in 1885 he passed the examination for the higher teaching post. After teaching at various schools in Szczecin and doing his military service as a one-year volunteer in Greifswald , he became a teacher at the Städtisches Schiller-Realgymnasium in Szczecin in 1889, where he stayed until his retirement in 1925. In 1906 he received the title of high school professor .

Haas devoted himself to the history of Pomerania , but above all to folklore , especially as a collector of folk tales.

He had been a member of the Society for Pomeranian History and Archeology from 1885/1886 , from 1924 to 1933 as a member of the board. After founding the Rügisch-Pomeranian History Association , he became an active member there too.

From 1893 to 1902 he edited, together with Otto Knoop , the papers for Pomeranian Folklore . It was the first ethnographic specialist journal to appear for a German country. Due to a drop in subscriber numbers and a lack of public support, the publication of the magazine had to be stopped in 1902.

Haas is considered to be the most important collector of sagas in Western Pomerania . He collected legends already published elsewhere, as well as directly from the Pomeranian population. He published extensive collections of sagas as books. His two volumes, Rügen Legends and Pomeranian Legends , were reissued in numerous numbers.

In 1944, Haa's apartment in Szczecin was destroyed in a bomb attack. He moved to his younger brother's home in Bergen, where he died on July 27, 1950.

Awards

  • Honorary member of the Society for Pomeranian History and Archeology, 1933
  • Renewal of the doctoral degree by the University of Greifswald on the 65th anniversary of his doctorate, 1949

Fonts (selection)

Collections of sagas

  • Rügen legends and fairy tales. 1st edition: Ludwig Bamberg, Greifswald 1891; 3rd edition, Stettin 1903, online in the Internet Archive; 9th edition: Walter Krohß, Bergen (Rügen) 1939.
  • Legends and stories from the islands of Usedom and Wollin. Szczecin 1904.
  • Pomeranian legends. 1st edition: Eichblatt, Berlin, 1912. 4th edition: Eichblatt, Leipzig 1926.
  • Pomeranian water sagas. Publishing house Dr. K. Moninger, Greifswald 1923.
  • Book heath legends. Saunier, Stettin 1924.
  • Castle walls and barrows on the island of Rügen in folk tales. Schuster, Stettin 1925.
  • Greifswald legends. Abel, Greifswald 1925.
  • Says of the Grimmen district. Abel, Greifswald 1925.

Other fonts

  • Arkona in 1168. Schuster, Stettin 1918, 2nd edition 1925.
  • Rügen folklore. Schuster, Stettin 1920.
  • The animals in the Pomeranian proverb. Greifswald 1925.
  • The Great Lubin Map of Pomerania. Drafted on the occasion of the reprint of the card. Stettin 1926 (reprinted in: Eckard Jäger, Roderich Schmidt (Hrsg.): The Great Lubinsche Map of Pomerania from 1618. With a descriptive text by Alfred Haas (1926). Nordostdeutsches Kulturwerk, Lüneburg 1980, ISBN 3-922296-18 -1 )

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SURNAME Haas, Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Haas, Alfred Moritz Wilhelm Gottlieb
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian, folklorist and high school teacher
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Mountains on Rügen
DATE OF DEATH July 27, 1950
Place of death Mountains on Rügen