Ivar Paulson

Ivar Paulson (born May 26, 1922 in Tallinn , Republic of Estonia ; died March 6, 1966 in Sollentuna , Sweden ) was an Estonian ethnologist , religious scholar and poet. He was particularly interested in the ideas of the soul of the North Eurasian peoples, especially the old Estonian folk religion. He studied ethnography and archaeologist at the University of Tartu and emigrated to Germany after the Second World War , where he received his doctorate in Hamburg in 1946 , and later to Sweden. He was a university professor in Stockholm . His main work is his studies of the old Estonian folk religion . Paulson also published a collection of poems Päikesele vastu (Eesti Kirjastus Orto, 1951) and took part in the activities of the Estonian Scientific Society in Sweden ( Eesti Teaduslik Selts Rootsis / Estniska Lärdomssällskapet i Sverige ).

Publications (selection)

• Päikesele vastu . Gothenburg; Toronto: Orto, 1951 ( photo )
• The primitive ideas of the soul of the northern Eurasian peoples. A religious-ethnographic and religious-phenomenological investigation. Stockholm. (The Ethnographical Museum of Sweden, Stockholm. Monograph Series, 5.) 1958
• "The Religions of the Finnish Peoples". In: Ivar Paulson, Åke Hultkrantz , Karl Jettmar : The religions of Northern Europe and the American Arctic. , 147-282. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer. ( The Religions of Mankind , Vol. 3) 1962
• "The religions of the North Asian (Siberian) peoples". In: Ivar Paulson, Åke Hultkrantz , Karl Jettmar : The religions of Northern Europe and the American Arctic. , 5-147. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer. (The religions of mankind, 3.)
• The old Estonian folk religion. Bloomington: Indiana University; The Hague: Mouton. 1971
• Soul conceptions and belief in death of the Permian and Volga-Finnish peoples. In: Numen 11, No. 3, 1964, ISSN  0029-5973 , pp. 212-242.
• Les reports des ames animales avec les etres gardiens dans les croyances religieuses des peuples sibériens. Reprinted from Ethnos. 1960: 3-4. The Ethnographical Museum of Sweden, Stockholm., 1960
• "Vana eesti rahvausk: Usundiloolisi esseid" (Verlag Vaba Eesti, 1966).
• Old Estonian folk religion. Attempt to briefly summarize its main religious-phenomenological features. (Commentationes Balticae, XII / XIII, 4). Bonn: Baltic Research Institute, 1967
• From the nature and from the history of religion. Estonian Theological Society in Exile / Stockholm 1963
• Guardian spirits and deities of game (hunting animals and fish) in Northern Eurasia . Stockholm Studies in Comparative Religion, 2, Stockholm 1961
• "On the phenomenology of shamanism". Journal of Religious and Intellectual History 16 (2): 121–141 (1964)
• Forest and wild spirits in the popular belief of the Finnish peoples. 1960
• From the nature and from the history of religion . Stockholm; [Uppsala]: Estonian Theological Society in Exile. 1963
• Contributions to the economic ethnology of the Ostyaks. Dissertation Hamburg 1946

literature

• Ülo Valk ( University of Tartu ): "Folkloristic Contributions towards Religious Studies in Estonia: A Historical Outline." The Finnish Society for the Study of Religion. Temenos Vol. 50 No. 1 (2014), 137–63 (available online on February 7, 2018)
• Dace Bula, Sandis Laime (Ed.): Mapping the History of Folklore Studies: Centers, Borderlands and Shared Spaces. 2017 ( partial online view )
• Tomáš Bubík ( University of Pardubice ) and Henryk Hoffmann ( Jagiellonian University in Kraków ), Ed .: Studying Religions with the Iron Curtain Closed and Opened. The Academic Study of Religion in Eastern Europe. 2015 ( partial online view )
• Ulla Johansen : "Ivar Paulson (1922–1966)". In Ural-Altaic Yearbooks 39 (1967) 89-90.

Web links

• isik.tlulib.ee

References and footnotes

1. ↑ Jaan Kaplinski Hellar Grabbile