Franz Grieshofer

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Franz Grieshofer as director of the Austrian Museum of Folklore with the museum's “stove farmer”, 2005

Franz Grieshofer (born November 14, 1940 in Bad Ischl ) is an Austrian folklorist and former museum director and university lecturer.

Life

After graduating from high school in 1960, Franz Grieshofer studied folklore and prehistory at the universities of Innsbruck and Vienna . In 1971 he finished his studies in Vienna with a dissertation on shooting in the Salzkammergut . He then worked as a research assistant at the Austrian Folklore Atlas of the Austrian Academy of Sciences .

Leopold Schmidt brought the young academic to the Austrian Museum of Folklore , where he worked from September 1, 1975. After Klaus Beitl's retirement , Franz Grieshofer was appointed director of the Austrian Museum of Folklore as his successor in 1995. He held this position until his retirement on December 31, 2005.

In 2001 Franz Grieshofer was appointed honorary professor at the Institute for European Ethnology at the University of Vienna . He was vice-president of the Association for Folklore in Vienna and advisory board member of the Austrian Association for Folklore . The main focus of his museum and scientific activities were museology, research on customs, building and living, clothing and costume as well as riflemen.

Publications (selection)

  • The Ischl mountain festival . Montan-Verlag, Vienna 1970.
  • Riflemen in the Salzkammergut. Upper Austrian Provincial Publishing House, Linz 1977.
  • The association in Vienna. A folkloric outline. In: Report on the fourteenth Austrian Historians' Day in Vienna 1979, pp. 221–232.
  • Traditional costume club history and stories. In: Franz C. Lipp , E. Längle, G. Tostmann, F. Hubmann (eds.), Tracht in Österreich. Vienna 1984, pp. 194-199.
  • Of virgins, brass bands and peddlers ... On the emblematic of the Castelrotto costume. In: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Volkskunde , 1993, XLVII / 96, pp. 289-310.
  • with Christian Brandstätter (ed.): The leather pants. A brief cultural history of alpine trousers . Husum Printing and Publishing Company, Husum 1996.
  • Art play stuff. Works by Mexican artists and traditional toys from the collection of the Austrian Museum of Folklore. Self-published by the Austrian Museum of Folklore, Vienna 1996.
  • with Gerd Kaminski (ed.): Help heaven! Gods and saints in China and Europe. Austrian Museum of Folklore, Vienna 2002 (= reports of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for China and Southeast Asian Research No. 42 and catalogs of the Austrian Museum of Folklore, Vol. 81), ISBN 3-900359-98-9 .
  • Razor sharp. Reflections on an everyday object. Austrian Museum of Folklore, Vienna 2003 (= catalogs of the Austrian Museum of Folklore in Vienna, vol. 83), ISBN 3-902381-01-9 .
  • The way as goal. Selected writings on folklore (1975–2005). Celebration for the sixty-fifth birthday . Edited for the Folklore Society by Margot Schindler, Folklore Society, Vienna 2006 (= special publications of the Folklore Society in Vienna, vol. 5), ISBN 3-900358-24-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Catalog of the University of Vienna
  2. ↑ a b Full-time museum officials in Austria in the scientific service biographies on zobodat.at
  3. ↑ Johann Werfring: Farewell to the stove farmer . In: "Wiener Zeitung", December 31, 2005, p. 15.
  4. ↑ Assigned professors and external lecturers at the Institute for European Ethnology
  5. ↑ Detail page of the Austrian Folklore Museum
personal data
SURNAME Grieshofer, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian folklorist
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Ischl