Elizabeth Mincoff-Marriage

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Mary Elizabeth Mincoff-Marriage , b. Mary Elizabeth Marriage (born October 20, 1874 in Stratford , Essex , † August 29, 1952 in London ) was a British folk song researcher.

Life

Elizabeth Marriage studied German in Heidelberg and received her doctorate in 1898 under Wilhelm Braune . In 1902 she published the collection of folk songs from the Baden Palatinate . In 1921 and 1929/30 she worked as an employee at the German Folk Song Archive in Freiburg im Breisgau .

In 1904 she married the Bulgarian diplomat Constantin Constantinovitch Mincoff (1878-1929), with whom she had two sons. The younger, Marco Mincoff (1909–1987), became a well-known Shakespeare scholar. Her sister, Ellen Marriage (1865-1946), gained some fame through the translation of Honoré de Balzac's books into English.

Works

Books

  • Poetic relationships between humans and flora and fauna in today's folk song on High German soil. Hanstein, Bonn 1898 (also Diss. Univ. Heidelberg, November 3, 1898). Printed in: Alemannia. Vol. 26, 1898, pp. 97-183 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • (with John Meier ) Folksongs from the Canton of Bern. Cotti, Zurich 1901.
  • Folk songs from the Baden Palatinate. Niemeyer, Halle 1902 ( archive.org ).
  • (as Ed.) Georg Forster's Fresh Teutsche Liedlein , in five parts. Reprinted from the first editions 1539, 1540, 1549, 1556, with the differences of the later prints. Niemeyer, Halle 1903 ( archive.org ).
  • (with Margaret S. Marriage) Pillow Lace, a Practical Hand-book. J. Murray, 1907 ( archive.org ). Reprint under the title: Pillow Or Bobbin Lace: Technique, Patterns, History. Dover Publications, New York 1987, ISBN 0-486-25505-0 .
  • Souterliedekens: een nederlandsch psalmboek from 1540; met de oorspronkelijke folksliederen the bij de melodies behooren. Nijhoff, 's-Gravenhage 1922 ( scan ).
  • (with Gerhard Heilfurth ) Bergliederbüchlein. Historical-critical edition (= library of the Litterarian Society in Stuttgart . 285). 1936 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  • Zestiende-eeuwsche Dietsche folksliedjes: de oorspronkelijke teksten met de in de Souterliedekens van 1540 bewaarde melodieën. Nijhoff, 's-Gravenhage 1939.
  • Bulgarian folksongs. Ministry of Propaganda, National Culture Dept., Sofia 1945.

Essays

  • Marlbruck . In: The Modern Language Quarterly (1900-1904), Vol. 3, No. 2 (December 1900), pp. 128-131 ( JSTOR 41065306 ).
  • Old song prints in the British Museum. In: Alemannia. Vol. 28 (1900), pp. 248-259 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Legends of Bergstrasse and Neckar. In: Alemannia. Vol. 29 (1901), pp. 73-76 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Unpublished items from the Weimar song manuscript from 1537. In: Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsche Taal- en Letterkunde. 38, 1920, 2, pp. 81-112 ( full text ).
  • Some Dutch songs with foreign connections. In: Folklore gifts: John Meier presented on his seventieth birthday. W. de Gruyter & Co., Berlin, Leipzig 1934, p. 138 ff.

literature

  • Csilla Schell, Eckhard John: Are there folk songs from Baden-Württemberg? Annotated bibliography on the "folk song" and its research in Baden-Württemberg. In: Eckhard John (Hrsg.): Volkslied - Hymne - political song. Waxmann, Münster 2003, ISBN 3-8309-1351-6 , pp. 167-390, here p. 212 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  • Otto Holzapfel , Ernst Schusser (arr.): In the footsteps of Augusta Bender (1846–1924) and Elizabeth Marriage (1874–1952) on the edge of the Odenwald (= AdS 14). Folk music archive and folk music maintenance of the Upper Bavaria district, Munich 1998 ( OCLC 164572773 ; content ).
  • Otto Holzapfel: Song directory: The older German-language popular song tradition ( online version on the folk music archive of the Upper Bavaria district's homepage ; in PDF format; ongoing updates).
  • Ursula Perkow : Folksong tradition in Handschuhsheim a hundred years ago. The Collection of the Elizabeth Marriage. In: Yearbook of the Handschuhsheim district association 1996, ZDB -ID 1051498-3 , pp. 92–96.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Descendants of Francis Marriage ; PDF; 384 KB, accessed June 28, 2020
  2. ^ ME Marriage: Poetic relationships between humans and the flora and fauna in today's folk song on High German soil. Diss. Univ. Heidelberg, November 3, 1898 (Hanstein, Bonn 1898). The work was reviewed rather critically by Philip S. Allen ( Modern Language Notes, May, 1899, Vol. 14, No. 5, pp. 156–157, JSTOR 2917157 ).
  3. ↑ DNB 128576650 , cf. Marco Mincoff in the English Wikipedia
  4. ^ Literature by and about Ellen Marriage in the WorldCat bibliographic database , cf. Ellen Marriage on Wikipedia
personal data
SURNAME Mincoff-Marriage, Elizabeth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mincoff-Marriage, Mary Elizabeth (full name); Marriage, Mary Elizabeth (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British folk song researcher
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Stratford , Essex
DATE OF DEATH August 29, 1952
Place of death London