Pertev Naili Boratav

Pertev Naili Boratav , maiden name Mustafa Pertev, Turkish Pertev Naılî Boratav , Bulgarian Пертев Наили Боратав (born September 2, 1907 in Darıdere, Ottoman Empire (now Slatograd , Bulgaria); died March 16, 1998 in Paris , France ) was a Turkish Folklorist , Turkologist and fairy tale collector . He has been called the "Founding Father of Turkish Folklore During the Republic".

Life

Boratav was born in Darıdere in 1907 as the second child of a high-ranking official. When Boratav was two years old, his family moved to Eğridere in the Anatolian province, where his father had been transferred. The family lived successively in different cities in the Sanjak Gümülcine of the Ottoman Empire, depending on where his father was transferred. The biggest impression was made by Mudurnu , where Boratav's parents eventually settled. Here, as a young student, he began collecting folk songs, folk tales and folk poems. Boratav was trained at İstanbul Lisesi and went to Istanbul University in 1927 . The formative professors during the course were the French comparative mythologist Georges Dumézil and the Turkish literary critic Mehmet Fuat Köprülü . Boratav graduated from the Faculty of Turkish Language and Literature in 1930. From 1931 to 1932 he worked as an assistant to the historian Mehmet Fuat Köprülü. Then Boratav worked from 1932 to 1936 as a teacher for Turkish literature at the Lise in Konya ( Turkish Konya Lisesi ). At the same time he taught in Konya at the teacher training institute for men ( Turkish Konya Erkek Öğretmen Okulu ). In 1936 Boratav went to Germany with his wife, the primary school teacher Hayrünnisa, to improve his knowledge of German. He had to leave Nazi Germany because of political statements. After his return, Boratav worked as a librarian at the School for Political Studies ( Mülkiye Mektebi in Turkish ) in Ankara .

After founding Turkey's first folk literature faculty in 1946, Boratav was one of three professors accused of promoting socialism and undermining nationalism in 1947. Although acquitted in 1948, his faculty was closed. Boratov was forced to move to Paris in 1952, where he stayed for the rest of his life.

As a student of Köprülü and Dumézil, Boratav was also influenced by the writings of Arnold van Gennep . He was a pioneer by paying attention to the performing aspects of folklore. Boratav classified the Turkish folk tales together with Wolfram Eberhard . In doing so, he applied the comparative approach of Antti Aarne , insisting that a detailed classification of fairy tales from a particular culture must precede attempts at cross-cultural research.

Fonts

• Gökoğlu Destanı , 1931
• Folklor ve Edebiyat I, 1939
• Bey Böyrek Hikayesine Ait Metinler, 1939
• Halk Edebiyatı Dersleri, 1943
• İzahlı Halk Şiiri antolojisi, 1946
• Halk hikâyeleri ve halk hikâyeciliği , 1946
• with Wolfram Eberhard, Types of Turkish Folk Tales , 1953
• Zaman Zaman İçinde, 1958
• Folklor ve Edebiyat II, 1954
• Les histoires d'ours en Anatolie , 1955
• Le Tekerleme, 1963
• Turkish folk tales , 1967
• Az Gittik, Uz Gittik, 1969
• 100 Soruda Türk Folkloru, 1973
• Nasreddin Hoca, 1996

literature

• Hande Birkalan: Pertev Naili Boratav, Turkish Politics, and the University Events . In: Turkish Studies Association Bulletin . tape 25 , no. 1 , 2001, p. 39-60 , JSTOR : 43384792 (English).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Donald Haase (Ed.): The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales . Greenwood Publishing Group, 2007, ISBN 978-0-313-33441-2 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).
2. ↑ ^{a b} Arzu Öztürkmen: Folklore on Trial: Pertev Naili Boratav and the Denationalization of Turkish Folklore . In: Journal of Folklore Research . tape 42 , no. 2 . Indiana University Press, 2005, pp. 185-216 , JSTOR : 3814600 (English).
3. ↑ Hande Birkalan: News: Pertev Naili Boratav (1907-1998) . In: Brigitte Bönisch-Brednich, Simone Stiefbold, Harm-Peer Zimmermann (eds.): Fabula . tape 45 , no. 1/2 . De Gruyter, 2004, p. 113-117 (English, degruyter.com ).