Martin Sharp

Martin Scharfe (born March 8, 1936 in Waiblingen ) is a German folklorist .

Career

Scharfe first studied folklore , art history and sociology at the University of Tübingen . From 1965 to 1968 he worked as a research assistant at the Württemberg State Office for Folklore in Stuttgart . In the last year of this activity he received his doctorate with the dissertation Evangelical devotional pictures. Studies on the intention and function of the image in the history of piety, especially in the Swabian region . He then became a research assistant and academic advisor at the Ludwig Uhland Institute for Empirical Cultural Studies at Tübingen University. In 1980 he completed his habilitation with the work The Religion of the People , then taught as a private lecturer and then as an associate professor at that institute. From 1985 until his retirement in 2001 he was Professor of European Ethnology and Cultural Research at the University of Marburg . Between 2002 and 2006 he held a visiting professorship at the Institute for European Ethnology / Folklore at the University of Innsbruck .

Publications

• Evangelical devotional pictures. Studies on the intention and function of the image in the history of piety, especially in the Swabian region (= publications by the State Office for Monument Preservation in Stuttgart. Series C: Folklore. Vol. 5, ISSN  0521-9949 ). Müller & Gräff, Stuttgart 1968 (at the same time: Tübingen, University, dissertation, from January 9, 1969).
• The religion of the people. Small cultural and social history of Pietism. Gütersloher Verlagshaus Mohn, Gütersloh 1980, ISBN 3-579-02102-8 .
• Signpost. On the cultural history of getting lost and finding your way. Jonas-Verlag, Marburg 1998, ISBN 3-89445-230-7 .
• Human work. Explorations about culture. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2002, ISBN 3-412-14201-8 .
• About religion. Faith and Doubt in Popular Culture. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2004, ISBN 3-412-07504-3 .
• Mountain addiction. A cultural history of early alpinism 1750–1850. Böhlau, Vienna et al. 2007, ISBN 978-3-205-77641-3 .
• Signatures of culture. Studies on everyday life & exploring it. Jonas-Verlag, Marburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-89445-459-3 .
• Pictures from the Alps. Another story of mountaineering. Böhlau, Vienna et al. 2013, ISBN 978-3-205-78918-5 .

literature

• Siegfried Becker, Andreas C. Bimmer, Karl Braun , Jutta Buchner-Fuhs, Sabine Gieske, Christel Köhle-Hezinger (eds.): Folklore Tableaus. A commemorative publication for Martin Scharfe for the 65th birthday of companions, friends and students. Waxmann, Münster et al. 2001, ISBN 3-8309-1040-1 .
• Martin Scharfe: Signatures of Culture. Studies on everyday life & exploring it. Jonas-Verlag, Marburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-89445-459-3 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Martin Scharfe in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Martin Scharfe  in the German Digital Library
• Detail page on the visiting professorship at the University of Innsbruck