Mathilde Hain

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Mathilde Hain (born March 16, 1901 in Großauheim , † January 12, 1983 in Neuenhain ) was a German folklorist .

Life

Hain received his doctorate in 1932 at the University of Frankfurt under Franz Schultz in German studies on the essence of early expressionist drama . In 1934 she passed the state examination in German, English and philosophy. However, she did not go to school, but did research with the folklorist Julius Schwietering . Shortly before the end of the war, in February 1945, Hain completed his habilitation at the Humboldt University in Berlin . After her habilitation, which was funded by the Reich Ministry of Education , and studied the vernacular in an Upper Hessian village , she returned to teaching at the University in Frankfurt . There she headed the Institute for German Folklore from 1953 to 1968 , initially as an associate professor with a diet lecturer from 1962 as a scientific adviser and professor.

She published several books on folklore and language studies.

Honors

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.hanau.de/stadtentwicklung/geschichte/strassennamen/index.html
  2. ^ Obituary by Leopold Kretzenbache in Österreichische Zeitschrift für Volkskunde , Verein für Volkskunde in Wien , V. 86, 1983, page 51, only partially available online.
  3. ↑ Levke Harders, From diligence and expertise - students and academics at the Philosophical Faculty in The Berlin University in the Nazi Era , Franz Steiner Verlag, 2005
  4. ↑ Annette Vogt, Awakening and Displacement. Women scientists at the Berlin University between 1918 and 1945/46 in Women at the Humboldt University 1908–1998 (PDF; 399 kB)
  5. ↑ Werner Besch, Dialektologie: a handbook for German and general dialect research , Walter de Gruyter, 1982
  6. ^ Heidrun Alzheimer, Women in Folklore - A Contribution to the History of Science , in Folk Culture, History, Region: Festschrift for Wolfgang Brückner on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Ed .: Dieter Harmening, Erich Wimmer, Wolfgang Brückner, Königshausen & Neumann, 1992
  7. ↑ August Gaul plaque ( memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) on: hanau.de
personal data
SURNAME Hain, Mathilde
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German folklorist
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Grossauheim
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 1983
Place of death Bad Neuenhain