Oskar Loorits

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Oskar Loorits. Photo from the 1920s

Oskar Loorits (* October 27 . Jul / 9. November  1900 greg. In Kõpu , Viljandi County ; † 12. December 1961 in Uppsala ) was an Estonian folklorist and scholar of religion .

Career

Loorits first studied folklore with Walter Anderson at the University of Tartu (German: Dorpat ) and received his doctorate there in 1926. Between 1927 and 1941 he was a lecturer in Estonian and comparative folklore (in the last three years as holder of the Anderson chair ). From 1927 to 1942 he was also director of the Eesti Rahvaluule Arhiiv ( Archive of Estonian Folklore ). In 1938 he became a member of the Estonian Academy of Sciences . In 1944 he fled to Sweden and worked there as an archive assistant until 1947. He then worked as a research assistant at the Dialekt och folkminnesarkivet ( dialect and folk song archive ) at Uppsala University until shortly before his death .

Publications (selection)

  • Livian fairy tales and legends variants , Helsingfors 1926 (Folklore Fellows' Communications Vol. 21, 1 = No 66).
  • The North German Klabautermann in the East Baltic , Dorpat 1931.
  • Estonian folk poetry and mythology , Tartu a. a. 1932.
  • The abused and avenging fire , Dorpat 1935 (Commentationes Archivi traditionum popularium Estoniae; 1).
  • Folk songs of the Livs , Tartu 1936 (Negotiations of the Estonian Scholarly Society XXVIII).
  • Some notes on the Repertoire of the Estonian Folk-Tale , in: Eesti Rahvaluule Archiivi Toimetused 6, Tartu 1937.
  • Saint George in the Russian folk tradition of Estonia. Translated from the Russian by Heinrich Laakmann , Eastern Europe Institute, Berlin 1955.

literature

  • Felix J. Oinas: Loorits, Oskar. In: Enzyklopädie des Märchen Vol. 8 (1996), columns 1193-1195.
  • Ergo-Hart Västrik: Oskar Loorits: Byzantine Cultural Relations and Practical Application of Folklore Archives , in: Studies in Estonian Folkloristics and Ethnology. A Reader and Reflexive History; Tartu University Press, Tartu 2005, ISBN 9949-11-110-2

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the baptismal register of the Köppo parish (Estonian: Kõpu kogudus)
personal data
SURNAME Loorits, Oskar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Estonian folklorist and religious scholar
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Kõpu , Viljandi County , Livonia Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 1961
Place of death Uppsala , Uppsala County , Sweden