Siegfried de Rachewiltz

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Siegfried de Rachewiltz (born April 8, 1947 in Meran ) is an ethnologist , cultural historian and writer from South Tyrol .

Life

The son of Boris and Mary de Rachewiltz grew up on the Brunnenburg and attended the humanistic high school "Beda Weber" in Meran. After earning a Bachelor of Arts at Rutgers University , he holds a degree in language and literature ( Laurea in Lingue e Letterature Straniere ) at the University of Urbino , which he in 1973 with a thesis on the " Cantos " his grandfather Ezra Pound at the end brought. In 1974 de Rachewiltz founded the Brunnenburg Agricultural Museum with Peter Lloyd and Franz Haller. In 1983 he submitted a comparative dissertation to Harvard University on the myth of the sirens , with which he was awarded a Ph.D. advanced.

From 1981 he worked on behalf of the State Monuments Office on the inventory and protection of the rural monuments in South Tyrol . With Leander Petzoldt he initiated the Brunnenburg Symposia on Folk Tales in 1984. From 1991 to 2014 he was director of the South Tyrolean State Museum for Cultural and State History at Tyrol Castle . In the 1990s de Rachewiltz was cultural advisor for the South Tyrolean Schützenbund . In 2002 he obtained his habilitation in European ethnology at the University of Innsbruck .

De Rachewiltz is the author of numerous publications on folklore and cultural history and has published his own poetry . He is the owner of Tschenglsberg Castle .

Publications (selection)

  • Glossary of Tyrolean Farm Equipment , ed. with Peter Lloyd et al., Meran, 1972.
  • Bread in Southern Tyrol , Arunda B, Schlanders 1980
  • De Sirenibus. An Inquiry into Sirens from Homer to Shakespeare. Harvard Dissertations in Comparative Literature, Garland Press, New York / London 1987, ISBN 0-8240-8426-8 .
  • Chestnuts in southern Tyrol , Arunda 33, Schlanders 1992.
  • Transumanza. Change pastures , ed. with Roberto Togni, Bozen 1994, ISBN 3-900521-39-5
  • Bacon from South Tyrol. A contribution to the history of food in Tyrol , Bozen 1995.
  • Communication and Mobility in the Middle Ages: Encounters between South and Central Europe (11th – 14th centuries) . Edited with Josef Riedmann . Verlag Jan Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1995. ISBN 3-7995-5480-7
  • Joseph Ennemoser. Life and work of the freedom fighter, physician and magnetizer (1787–1854) , Innsbruck-Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-85218-606-1
  • Drink, eat, wine and bread .. (Kl 14,1-2). On the eating and drinking culture on Hauenstein , in: Oswald von Wolkenstein. Life-work reception, ed. by Ulrich Müller and Margarete Springeth, Berlin / New York 2011, pp. 51–63, ISBN 978-3-11-020782-8
  • The struggle for emancipation in the visitor books of Tyrol Castle , in: "Zachor - don't forget". Jewish life pictures in Tyrol in the 19th and 20th centuries, Schloss Tirol 2012, ISBN 978-88-7073-708-0
  • www.flick-werk.net . Mending and recycling in historical Tyrol , ed. according to with A. Rauchegger, Meran 2014, ISBN 978-88-940258-1-1
  • Papaver. Poppy. The poppy in mythology, folk medicine, food and material culture in Tyrol , ed. with A. Rauchegger and Christiane Ganner, Meran 2015, ISBN 978-88-940258-2-8

literature

  • Eugen Thurnher (Ed.): South Tyrol in the German poem. Landscape and fate. Bolzano: Athesia 2003, p. 161.
  • Paul Wimmer: Guide through the literature of Tyrol since 1945. Darmstadt: Bläschke 1978, pp. 183–185.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Siegfried de Rachewiltz, entry in the Lexicon Literatur in Tirol of the Research Institute Brenner Archive , accessed on January 30, 2016
  2. ↑ Playground for the spirit, report from the South Tyrolean Tourism Information ( memento of the original from January 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 30, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.suedtirol.info
  3. ↑ S. de Rachewiltz: “We have to shackle our spiritual scythes…” , Nov. 24, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Rachewiltz, Siegfried de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rachewiltz, Siegfried W. de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian folklorist and cultural historian (South Tyrol)
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Meran