Ralph Steele Boggs

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Ralph Steele Boggs (born November 17, 1901 in Terre Haute , Vigo County , Indiana , † July 23, 1994 ) was an American Romance scholar , Hispanist , folklorist , paremiologist and fairy tale researcher .

life and work

Boggs received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1929 at the suggestion of Archer Taylor with the work Index of Spanish Folktales. Classified according to Antti Aarne 's 'Types of the folktale', translated and enlarged by Stith Thompson (Helsinki 1930, 1993). He taught Hispanic studies from 1929 to 1950 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (where he set up the first course in folklore in the United States in 1939 ), then until his retirement in 1967 at the University of Miami in Florida .

Boggs founded the magazines Folklore Americas. A semi-annual journal devoted to the study of Hispanic and Latin American folklore (from 1941) and North Carolina Folklore (from 1954). From 1937 to 1981 he obtained a bibliography for the magazine Southern folklore quarterly. A publication devoted to the historical and descriptive study of folkore and to the discussion of folk material as a living tradition .

Boggs was married to the Dominican folklorist Edna Garrido de Boggs (1913-2010).

Works

Folklore

  • (Ed. With Nicholson Barney Adams) Spanish folktales , New York 1932
  • (Ed. With Carlos Castillo) L eyendas épicas de España , Boston / New York 1935
  • (Ed. With Mary Gould Davis) Three golden oranges and other Spanish folk tales , New York / Toronto 1936
  • B ibliografía del folklore mexicano , Mexico City 1938
  • Bibliography of Latin American folklore , New York 1940
  • El folklore en los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica , Buenos Aires 1954
  • (Ed.) Charles Wolfgang Arnade , Florida on trial 1593-1602 , Coral Gables 1959
  • (Ed. With Moritz Adolph Jagendorf 1888–1981) The king of the mountains. A treasury of Latin American folk stories , New York 1960 (Bulgarian Sofia 1968)

Other works

  • Outline history of Spanish literature , Boston 1937 (Spanish: Montevideo 1945)
  • (with Lloyd August Kasten , Hayward Keniston , Henry Brush Richardson) Tentative dictionary of medieval Spanish , 2 vols., Chapel Hill 1946
  • (Ed.) Ione Stuessy Wright, Voyages of Álvaro de Saavedra Cerón 1527-1529 , Miami 1951
  • Spanish pronunciation exercises , New York 1954
  • (with Robert James Dixson) Sound teaching. A laboratory manual of American English , New York 1959
  • Spanish word builder , New York 1963
  • Basic Spanish pronunciation , New York 1970, 1976
  • (with Joseph I. Dixson) Everyday Spanish idioms , New York 1978
  • (with Robert James Dixson) English step by step with pictures , Englewood Cliffs 1991; Grammar step by step with pictures , White Planes 2004

literature

  • Efraín Morote Best, El Dr. Ralph Steele Boggs y su Clasificación del folklore , Cuzco 1954
  • Jan Harold Brunvand , American Folklore. To Encyclopedia , London 1998 sv
  • Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Rolf Wilhelm Brednich , Heidrun Alzheimer : Processing - Christ and the blacksmith. in: Encyclopedia of Fairy Tales, Volume 2. De Gruyter, Berlin, Boston, 2011, pp. 579, 580.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ralph Steele Boggs , US Social Security Death Directory (SSDI), accessed October 6, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Boggs, Ralph Steele
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boggs, RS; Boggs, Ralph S.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Romance philologist, Hispanist, folklorist, paremiologist, and fairy tale researcher
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Terre Haute , Vigo County , Indiana
DATE OF DEATH July 23, 1994