Matthias Zender

Matthias Zender (born April 20, 1907 in Niederweis , † December 20, 1993 in Bonn ) was a German folklorist .

life and career

Zender was drafted into the Wehrmacht on May 20, 1940, and on April 1, 1941, he was appointed War Administrator in Arlon (Belgium).

He was director of the folklore seminar and head of department for Rhenish folklore and professor at the Institute for historical regional studies of the Rhineland at the University of Bonn . Here he joined the Catholic student union WKSt.V. in 1927. Unitas-Salia at. His research focus was the veneration of saints in Germany. After 1945, the answer sheets for the Atlas of German Folklore were evaluated under the direction of Zender . From 1965 to 1975 he was editor of the Rhenish Yearbook for Folklore , and at times he worked with Heinrich Dittmaier on the Rhenish Dictionary . In 1975 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .

Honors

1978: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany
1983: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

Works

as editor: The dates of the annual fires in Europe. Explanations of the distribution map (= research on the Ethnological Atlas of Europe and its neighboring countries. Vol. 1). Schwartz, Göttingen 1980, ISBN 3-509-01126-0 .
with Günter Wiegelmann and Gerhard Heilfurth : Folklore. An introduction (= basics of German studies. Vol. 12). E. Schmidt, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-503-00578-1 .
Shape and change. Essays on Rhenish-Westphalian folklore and cultural research. Röhrscheid, Bonn 1977, ISBN 3-7928-0395-X .
Spaces and layers of medieval veneration of saints in their significance for folklore. The saints of the central Maasland and the Rhineland in cult history and spread. 2nd, expanded edition. Rheinland-Verlag et al., Cologne 1973, ISBN 3-7927-0173-1 .
as editor: Atlas of German Folklore. Based on the collections carried out from 1929 to 1935 on behalf of the German Research Foundation. Elwert, Marburg 1958 ff.

literature

Alois Döring, "Matthias Zender", in: Internet portal Rheinische Geschichte, http://www.rheinische-geschichte.lvr.de/Persoenitäten/matthias-zender/DE-2086/lido/57c827be1ab6f5.77104033 (accessed on May 28, 2019 )
Josef Mangold: List of publications by Matthias Zender. (= Rheinisches Jahrbuch für Volkskunde. Supplement 1, ISSN 0080-2697 ). Dümmler, Bonn 1987.
Edith Ennen , Günter Wiegelmann (Hrsg.): Festschrift Matthias Zender. Studies on folk culture, language and national history. 2 volumes. Röhrscheid, Bonn 1972, ISBN 3-7928-0327-5 .

Individual evidence

↑ Döring, Alois, "Matthias Zender", in: Internet portal Rheinische Geschichte, retrieved from: http://www.rheinische-geschichte.lvr.de/Persoenitäten/matthias-zender/DE-2086/lido/57c827be1ab6f5.77104033 (retrieved on May 28, 2019)
↑ Wolfgang Burr (ed.): Unitas manual . tape 1 . Verlag Franz Schmitt, Siegburg 1995, p. 370 .
↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 266.

personal data
SURNAME	Zender, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German folklorist
DATE OF BIRTH	April 20, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH	Niederweis
DATE OF DEATH	December 20, 1993
Place of death	Bonn

[1] Döring, Alois, "Matthias Zender", in: Internet portal Rheinische Geschichte, retrieved from: http://www.rheinische-geschichte.lvr.de/Persoenitäten/matthias-zender/DE-2086/lido/57c827be1ab6f5.77104033 (retrieved on May 28, 2019)

[2] Wolfgang Burr (ed.): Unitas manual . tape 1 . Verlag Franz Schmitt, Siegburg 1995, p. 370 .

[3] Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 266.