Olaf Bockhorn

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Olaf Bockhorn (born February 19, 1942 in Linz ) is an Austrian folklorist .

Career

Olaf Bockhorn studied folklore with Helmut Fielhauer at the University of Vienna . In 1971 he completed his studies with a dissertation on carts and sledges in the Mühlviertel . In 1986 he completed his habilitation in European Folklore with the extensive work Work-House-Device in Burgenland. Contributions to the Pannonian culture.

Between 1969 and 1970 he worked at the Institute for Comparative Behavioral Research at the Austrian Academy of Sciences . From 1970 to 2003 he taught and researched at the University of Vienna (Institute for Folklore , since 2000: Institute for European Ethnology ), most recently as an associate professor.

Several professorships at the universities of Regensburg , Bamberg and Bayreuth followed.

Within his research areas - folklore of Austria, specialist history, work and economics, exhibition and museum systems, ethnicity and minorities - he published countless scientific articles. Bockhorn is a board member of the Austrian Association for Folklore and the Association for Folklore in Vienna .

Publications

  • Wolfgang Jacobeit , Hannjost Lixfeld / Olaf Bockhorn in collaboration with James R. Dow (eds.): Völkische Wissenschaft. Vienna 1994.
  • with Klaus Beitl (ed.): Ethnologia Europaea . Plenary lectures (= published by the Inst. F. Folklore of the Univ. Vienna, Vol. 16 / II), Vienna 1995
  • with Petra Bockhorn, Hermann Steininger: Museums and collections in Lower Austria. III. District above the Manhartsberg. Vienna 1996.
  • with Ingeborg Grau, Walter Schicho (Ed.): How farmers became workers. Frankfurt / M. 1998 (= historical social studies 13).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Vienna" according to Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar Online. P23063. Retrieved April 1, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Bockhorn, Olaf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian folklorist
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz