Antti Aarne

Antti Amatus Aarne

Antti Amatus Aarne [ ˈɑntːi ɑːrnɛ ] (born December 5, 1867 in Pori , † February 5, 1925 in Helsinki ) was a Finnish fairy tale researcher .

Life

Aarne studied in Russia between 1893 and 1898 and was subsequently a language teacher and rector at Russian high schools. He received his doctorate in 1908 with the work Comparative Fairy Tale Research . From 1911 he taught as a lecturer in Finnish and comparative folk poetry research at the University of Helsinki , from 1922 as an associate professor .

Together with Julius and Kaarle Krohn, Aarne is considered to be the founder of the geographical-historical method , also known as the Finnish School . In 1910 he published a typology of fairy tales under the title Directory of Fairy Tale Types with the help of experts , which was substantially revised and supplemented first in 1928 and then again in 1961 by the American Stith Thompson as the Aarne Thompson Index .

Works (selection)

• The magic gifts: a comparative fairy tale investigation . Société finno-ougrienne , 1909 ( full text in the Google book search). Separate print from the Journal de la Société finno-ougrienne XXVII
• Finnish fairy tale variants. Directory of records collected up to 1908. Hamina 1911 (Folklore Fellows' communications; 5).
• Guide to comparative fairy tale research. Hamina 1913 (Folklore Fellows' communications; 13).
• Riot about the hard of hearing. A comparative study. Hamina 1914 (Folklore Fellows' communications; 20).
• The man from paradise in literature and popular speech. A comparative fluctuation study. Hamina 1915 (Folklore Fellows' communications; 22).
• The rich man and his son-in-law. Comparative fairy tale research. Hamina 1916 (Folklore Fellows' communications; 23).
• Estonian fairy tales and legends. Directory of the records belonging to the Hurt manuscript collections. Hamina 1918 (Folklore Fellows' communications; 25).
• The Estonian-Ingermanland Maie song. A comparative study. Helsinki 1922 (Folklore Fellows' communications; 47).
• The Song of the Angling of the Virgin Vellamos. A comparative study. Helsinki 1923 (Folklore Fellows' communications; 48).
• The magical escape. A fairy tale study. Helsinki 1930 (Folklore Fellows' communications; 92).

literature

• Pirkko-Liisa Rausmaa: Aarne, Antti Amatus. In: Enzyklopadie des Märchen Vol. 1 (1977), Col. 1-4.

Web links

Wikisource: Antti Aarne  - Sources and full texts

Commons : Antti Aarne  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Antti Aarne in the catalog of the German National Library