Stith Thompson

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Stith Thompson (born March 7, 1885 in Bloomfield (Kentucky) , † January 13, 1976 in Columbus (Indiana) ) was an American folklorist .

As a representative of the so-called Finnish school (geographical-historical method) of narrative research, he revised and supplemented first in 1927 and then again in 1961 the classification of fairy tale and swan groups by Antti Aarne ( Aarne-Thompson Index ) originally published in 1910 .

Since 1947 he was a member of the American Philosophical Society . In 1959, Thompson and his colleague Archer Taylor received an honorary doctorate from the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel .

Publications (selection)

  • The Types of the Folktale. A Classification and Bibliography. Antti Aarne's Directory of Fairy Tale Types (FF Communications No. 3) translated and enlarged (= Folklore Fellows' Communications . Bd. 74). Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, Helsinki 1928.
  • The Types of the Folktale. A Classification and Bibliography. Antti Aarne's Directory of Fairy Tale Types (FFC No. 3) translated and enlarged. (= Folklore Fellows' Communications . Vol. 184). 2nd Edition. Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, Helsinki 1961.
  • Motif index of folk literature. Indiana University Press, Bloomington / London 1955.

literature

Web links

Commons : Stith Thompson  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Member History: Stith Thompson. American Philosophical Society, accessed January 29, 2019 .
  2. ^ Hari S. Upadhyaya: Reminiscences of an Octogenarian Folklorist (Stith Thompson) . (PDF) In: Asian Folklore Studies . 27, No. 2, 1968, pp. 107-145.