Oskar Hackman

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Walter Oskar Hackman (born July 27, 1868 in Vyborg , † August 2, 1922 in Helsinki ) was a Finnish-Swedish folklorist .

Life

Walter Oskar Hackman was the third son of Woldemar Hackman (1831-1871) and Emilie Hackman (1841-1922), sister of Julius Krohn , born on July 27, 1868 in Vyborg . Due to his German roots - the Hackman family came from Bremen, from where his great-grandfather Johan Friedrich Hackman the Elder (1755–1807) emigrated to Vyborg in 1777 - he received his school education in Leipzig . 1887 enrolled him at the University of Helsinki , where he studied with Kaarle Krohn and his doctorate in 1904 on the Polyphemsage in the folk tradition .

Together with Kaarle Krohn, Hackman supported Antti Aarne in creating a catalog of types of European fairy tales ; Hackman himself took the numbers 1000 to 1199 from the stupid devil. His main interest, however, was the Finnish-Swedish fairy tales: in 1911 he published his catalog of the fairy tales of the Finnish Swedes and in 1917 and 1920 a volume each of Finlands svenska folkdiktning , in which he gave an overview of the fairy tale variants recorded by the Finnish Swedes up to that point, in 404 narrative types , with some deviations from Aarne's system. A catalog of types of mythical sagas started by Hackman remained unfinished.

Oskar Hackman worked for the Swedish Literature Society from 1909 until his death and, after Axel Olrik's death, was co-editor of the Folklore Fellows' Communications from 1918 .

His two older brothers are the archaeologist Alfred Leopold Frederik Hackman (1864-1942) and the geologist Victor Axel Hackman (1866-1941).

Works

  • The polypheme legend in folk tradition , Helsinki 1904. ( archive.org )
  • Catalog of the fairy tales of the Finnish Swedes based on Aarnes Directory of Fairy Tale Types , FFC 6, Leipzig 1911
  • Finlands svenska folkdiktning , 2 volumes, Helsinki 1917/20

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literature

  • Gun Herranen: Hackman, Walter Oskar . In: Encyclopedia of Fairy Tales . tape 6 , 1990, Sp. 350-351 .

Web links

Wikisource: Oskar Hackman  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kai Laitinen: Aino Kallas 1897–1921 . Otava, Helsinki 1973, ISBN 951-100677-0 , p. 177 .
  2. ↑ a b Entry on krohnfamily.org (accessed on May 3, 2011)
  3. ↑ Antti Aarne : Directory of fairy tale types (=  Suomalaisen Tiedeakatemian toimituksia. FF Communications . Volume  3 ). 1st edition. Finnish Literature Society printing house, Helsinki 1910, p. X ( full text at Wikisource ).
personal data
SURNAME Hackman, Oskar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hackman, Walter Oskar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION finland-swedish folklorist
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Vyborg
DATE OF DEATH August 2, 1922
Place of death Helsinki