Gottfried Henßen

Gottfried Henßen (born June 10, 1889 in Jülich ; † January 26, 1966 in Marburg an der Lahn ; also Gottfried Henssen ) was a German narrative researcher . He was the first director of the "Main Office for German Narrative Research" founded in Berlin in 1936 , today the " Central Archive of German Folk Tales " in Marburg . In 1951 Henßen was appointed honorary professor at the Philipps University of Marburg .

His wife was Toini Saraste from Finland and his daughter was the lichenologist Aino Henssen .

Works

• New legends from Berg und Mark. From Dönberg and Deilbach. A. Martini & Grüttesien, Elberfeld 1927.
• On the history of the Bergisch folk tale. 1928.
• Folk tales from Rhineland and Westphalia. A. Martini & Grüttesien, Elberfeld, 1932.
• People tell. Munsterland legends, fairy tales and tales. Münster 1935, 3rd edition 1983, 408 pp.
• In de Uhlenflucht. Low German Schwänke and fairy tales from Westphalia. Woodcuts by W. Mallek. Münster 1939, 3rd edition 1952.
• Legends, fairy tales and sagas from the Jülich region. Bonn 1955.
• Bergische fairy tales and legends. Folk tales. Munster 1961.
• The German Volksschwank. In: Folklore Texts, Issue 2.
• Folk songs from the new era. In: Folklore Texts, Volume 3.

literature

• Karl Meisen: Gottfried Henßen 65 years old. In: Rheinisch-Westfälische Zeitschrift für Volkskunde . Vol. 1, 1954, p. 127.

Web links

• Literature by and about Gottfried Henßen in the catalog of the German National Library
• Henßen, Gottfried. Hessian biography. (As of May 28, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lutz Hagestedt (Ed.): German Literature Lexicon of the 20th Century. Volume XVI. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2011, p. 587. Excerpts from books.google.de
2. ^ History of the Central Archives of German Folk Tales
3. ↑ Obituary at bryolich.ch (PDF), accessed on January 25, 2018