List of proverb researchers and collectors

The list of proverb researchers and collectors contains personalities who have made significant contributions to the research and collection of proverbs and sayings or names that are associated with popular collections, especially in the German-speaking area. One focus of the list is historical collections. The following overview, sorted by language, is broad; it does not claim to be up-to-date or complete.

The Dutch proverbs

people

American

• David Kin
• Archer Taylor
• Bartlett Jere Whiting

Arabic

• Aḥmad Ibn-Muḥammad al-Maidānī (ar)
• Mufaddal ibn Salama
• Albert Socin
• Paul Lunde
• Justin Wintle
• John Lewis Burckhardt
• Chehade Seif-El-Dine

Ashanti

• Robert Sutherland Rattray

Burmese

• Hla Pe (en)

Chinese

• Herbert Allen Giles
• Clifford H. Plopper
• Arthur Henderson Smith (en)
• Duanzheng Wen温端政

Danish

• Evald Tang Kristensen (da)

German

• Agricola
• Sebastian Franck
• Friedrich Petri
• Brothers Grimm
• Franz Freiherr von Lipperheide
• Karl Simrock
• Karl Friedrich Wander
• Johann Michael Sailer
• Andreas Schellhorn
• Lutz Röhrich
• Wolfgang bodice
• Julius Wilhelm Zincgref

English

• Henry George Bohn (en)
• E. Cobham Brewer (s)
• William Carew Hazlitt (en)
• William George Smith

Finnish

• August Valdemar Koskimies

French

• Antoine Le Roux de Lincy
• Pierre-Marie Quitard
• Pierre-Alexandre Gratet-Duplessis (fr)
• Henri de Vibraye
• Fritz Mäder

Frisian

• Ommo Wilts (frr)

Greek

• Nikolaos G. Politēs Νικόλαος Πολίτης
• Ernst von Leutsch
• Friedrich Wilhelm Schneidewin
• Maria Spyridonidou-Skarsouli Μαρία Σπυριδωνίδου-Σκαρσουλή

Hausa

• George Merrick

Hebrew

• David Charles Gross

Irish

• TF O'Rahilly (en)

Icelandic

• Hallgrímur Scheving (is)
• Finnur Jonsson

Italian

• Luigi Passerini

Japanese

• Daniel C. Buchanan
• William E. Griffis (en)
• Mizukami, Hitoshi
• Okada, Rokuo

Yiddish

• Ignaz Bernstein
• Ingeborg-Liane Schack
• Hanan J. Ayalti
• Leo Rosten (en)

Kazakh

• Kasebaiyefu

Cologne

• Fritz Hönig

Korean

• Tae Hung Ha

Latin

• Erasmus from Rotterdam

Lugbara

• AT Dalfovo

Malay

• AW Hamilton
• Richard Winstedt

Maltese

• Joseph Aquilina (mt)

Maori

• Aileen E. Brougham
• AW Ree

Moroccan

• Edvard Westermarck

Mexican

• Octavio A. Ballesteros

Mongolian

• P. Ujanga

Dutch

• Pieter Jacob Harrebomée (nl)
• Frederik August Stoett (left to right)

Norwegian

• Ivar Aasen
• Reidar Thoralf Christiansen (en)

Oromo

• Tasgara Hirpo

Pashtun

• Rohi Mataluna
• Edward Zellem (en)

Low German

• Joachim Daniel Rosenkranz (Rügen)
• Günter Petschel (Lower Saxony)
• Rudolf Eckart

Persian

• Simin K. Habibian
• Lawrence P. Elwell-Sutton

Polish

• Iwona Bartoszewicz (pl)

Portuguese

• Simin K. Habibian

• Teodor Flonta

Russian

• Vladimir Dal
• Moritz Michelsohn (ru)
• Fyodor Buslajew (ru)
• Vladimir Prokopyevich Anikin (ru)
• Grigory Permjakov (ru)
• Vlas Zhukov
• Valentin I. Simin
• AS Spirin
• Julius Altmann
• Ivan Klimenko
• AM Shigulev

Scottish

• Alexander Carmichael
• Alexander Hislop

Swedish

• Fredrik Ström

Swiss German

• Otto Sutermeister

Sicilian

• Giuseppe Pitrè (it)

Sorbian

• Susanne pants

Spanish

Castilian / Galician / Catalan

• Marqués de Santillana
• Hernán Núñez, el Pinciano ( Refranes o proverbios en romance )
• Juan de Mal Lara (es)
• José María Sbarbi (es)
• Gonzalo Correas (es)
• Francisco Rodríguez Marín

Sumerian

• Edmund I. Gordon

Swahili

• SS Farsi

Tibetan

• Lhamo Pemba

Turkish

• Celal Ozcan
• Metin Yurtbaşı
• Bedriye Atsiz
• Hans J. Kissling
• Kerest Haig

Vietnamese

• Nguyen Nhu Y

Yoruba

• Isaac O. Delano
• Owe L'esin Oro

Zulu

• Sol Plaatje

See also

• Paremiographer
• Poslowizy i pogoworki narodow Vostoka (Russian)
• Paremiography (English)

literature

• Lutz Röhrich , Wolfgang Mieder : Proverb. Metzler Collection , 154th 1977 ( partial online view )
• Wolfgang Mieder (Ed.): Proverbs: A Handbook. 2004
• Jon R. Stone (Ed.): The Routledge Book of World Proverbs. 2006
• Russian proverbs and sayings. Edited by Gundula and Rainer Berthelmann. 2010 ( RUB 18737) ( partial online view )
• Christian Conrad Nopitsch: Literature of Proverbs: A handbook for literary historians, bibliographers and librarians. 2nd edition. Nuremberg 1833 ( digitized version )

Web links

• Paremiography: Proverb Collections (Tamás Kispál)
• Category: Proverbs (Wikiquote)