Gustav Jungbauer

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Gustav Jungbauer (born July 17, 1886 in Oberplan in the Bohemian Forest , Krumlov district , † October 23, 1942 in Prague ) was a German-Bohemian professor of folklore at Charles University in Prague and co-founder of the Bohemian Forest Museum in Oberplan.

Life

Jungbauer attended the German grammar school in Krumau in South Bohemia and was a student of the grammar school teacher Josef Johann Amman (1862-1913), an ethnologist of the Bohemian Forest. He then studied German at the Charles University in Prague with August Sauer and Adolf Hauffen , which he obtained with a doctorate in philosophy. completed. After the teaching examination, he was a teacher at the higher state trade school in Reichenberg in northern Bohemia from 1910 to 1914 .

During the First World War , he was taken prisoner by the Russians as a war participant in the Austro-Hungarian army. He managed to escape back to Bohemia from a camp in Turkestan . 1919–1921 he stayed in Russia, where he was to achieve the repatriation of prisoners of war on behalf of the Czechoslovak Red Cross .

As a private lecturer, he succeeded Adolf Hauffen at the Charles University in 1923 and continued his bibliography of German folklore in Bohemia. In 1933 he was made extraordinary. In 1937 appointed full professor. He was a member of numerous societies and associations promoting nationality.

In his native town of Oberplan, Jungbauer co-founded the Bohemian Forest Museum in 1923, which was built up from foundations and bequests. From 1928 to 1938 he was editor of the “Sudetendeutschen Zeitschrift für Volkskunde” and editor of the “Contributions to Sudetendeutschen Volkskunde”. A plaque at the cemetery in Horni Plana ( Oberplan ), where his grave is preserved, remembered him.

Publications (selection)

  • Folk poetry and folk songs - contribution to German-Bohemian folklore. Prague, Reichenberg Volume 8, 108 ff.
  • The Rübezahl legend. Habilitation thesis 1923.
  • Bohemian Forest fairy tale. 1923.
  • Bohemian Forest legends. Jena 1924.
  • Onion calendar. In: Concise dictionary of German superstition. Berlin / Leipzig 1927. Reprint Berlin 1987, column 971.
  • Folk songs of the Egerland. 1932.
  • Black Friday . In: Concise dictionary of German superstition . Berlin and Leipzig, 1932. Reprint: Walter de Gruyter, Berlin New York, 2000, columns 45–73.
  • German folk medicine. Berlin / Leipzig 1934.
  • German and Kyrgyz wedding customs . In: Folklore gifts. John Meier offered on his seventieth birthday , Berlin: de Gruyter 1934, pp. 75–84.
  • German sagas from Czechoslovakia. 1934.

Literature (selection)

  • Young farmer Gustav. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1965, p. 149.
  • Biographical lexicon on the history of the Bohemian countries, edited by Heribert Sturm on behalf of the Collegium Carolinum , Volume II (IM), pages 72 and 73. Oldenbourg Verlag Munich 2000. ISBN 3-486-52551-4
  • Hans Giebisch , Gustav Gugitz : Biographical-Bibliographical Literature Lexicon of Austria from the Beginnings to the Present, 1963.
  • Erhard Josef Knobloch: German literature in Bohemia - Moravia - Silesia from the beginning until today . 2nd edition Munich 1976.
  • Yearbook of the German Academy of Sciences in Prague, 1942.
  • Franz Eduard Hrabe: University Professor Dr. Josef Jungbauer, his work and creativity . With a catalog raisonné, 1936.
  • Johanna von Herzogenberg : Between Danube and Moldau - Bavarian Forest and Bohemian Forest. The Mühlviertel and South Bohemia . The city of Oberplan in the section: Die Moldau , pp. 260–268, Prestel Verlag Munich, 1968.

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personal data
SURNAME Jungbauer, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Bohemian folklorist
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Top plan
DATE OF DEATH October 23, 1942
Place of death Prague