Robert Wildhaber

Robert Wildhaber (born August 3, 1902 in Walenstadt , † July 16, 1982 in Basel ) was a Swiss folklorist .

Life

Robert Wildhaber, son of a printer, studied German , English and Italian at the universities of Basel , Zurich and Heidelberg . He received his doctorate in 1928 at the University of Basel with a work on the Zurich playwright Jakob Ruf . From 1930 to 1961 Wildhaber worked as a high school teacher at the Realgymnasium Basel , later at the Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliches Gymnasium Basel . From 1946 to 1968 he headed the Swiss Museum of Folklore in Basel.

From 1947 to 1974, Wildhaber succeeded Eduard Hoffmann-Krayer as editor of the International Folklore Bibliography . He was editor of the journals Swiss Archive for Folklore (1950–82) and Swiss Folklore (1944–68).

In 1968 the University of Basel awarded him an honorary doctorate .

Robert Wildhaber was born in 1932 with Gertrud Mathilda. Füglistaller married; the international lawyer Luzius Wildhaber (1937–2020) was their son.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

• Jakob Ruf, a Zurich playwright of the 16th century. Basel 1929 (dissertation, University of Basel, 1928).
• The register of sins on the cow's skin. Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, Helsinki 1955.
• Contributions to the folklore of Graubünden. Rätisches Museum, Chur 1982.
• The old verse of the changeling and the other old verses. Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, Helsinki 1985.

Exhibition catalogs

• 1000 Easter eggs and Easter biscuits from all over Europe. Special exhibition March 15 - June 30, 1957 [in the Museum of Ethnology and Switzerland. Museum für Volkskunde Basel]. Haupt, Bern 1957.
• Yugoslav folk art. Special exhibition from November 1, 1958 to January 31, 1959. Basel 1958.
• Popular Christmas cribs from Europe. [Catalog for the special exhibition from December 1, 1958 - March 15, 1959 in the Swiss Museum of Folklore.] Haupt, Bern 1958.
• Christmas customs in Europe. Special exhibition from December 9th to January 31st, 1960. Haupt, Bern 1959.
• Polish folk culture. Special exhibition, January 15 - April 3, 1961 [in the Swiss Museum of Folklore, Basel]. Basel 1961.
• Headgear from Europe. Special exhibition August 1, 1963 - March 15, 1964 [Museum of Ethnology and Switzerland. Museum für Volkskunde Basel]. Basel 1963.
• Kitchen appliances. Special exhibition December 15, 1962 - May 15, 1963. Krebs, Basel 1963.
• Pastoral cultures in Europe. Special exhibition May 1966 - January 1967. Krebs, Basel 1966.

Further editions

• Acta tertii Conventus de Ethnographia Alpium Orientalium tractantis, Desertinae, Helvetia, from August 28, 1961 to September 2, 1961. Basel 1961.
• Masks and mask customs from Eastern and Southeastern Europe. Basel 1968.
• Swiss folk art. Pro Helvetia, Zurich 1969.
• with Leza Uffer : Swiss folk tales. Diederichs, Düsseldorf 1971.
• Acta sexti Conventus de Ethnographia Alpium Orientalium tractantis, Tusciae (Helvetia), from May 25th to May 28th, 1970. Trofenik, Munich 1971.

literature

• Walter Escher , Theo Gantner , Hans Trümpy (eds.): Festschrift for Robert Wildhaber on his 70th birthday on August 3, 1972. Krebs, Basel / Bonn 1973 ( table of contents ).
• Robert Wildhaber: My CV. In: Swiss Archives for Folklore . Volume 79, 1983, pp. 5-15 (with bibliography).
• Ueli Gyr : Wildhaber, Robert. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . October 30, 2013 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Robert Wildhaber in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Catalog entry of the dissertation , catalog of the library network Nebis , accessed on July 25, 2020.