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Wolfgang Mieder (2004)

Wolfgang Mieder (born February 17, 1944 in Nossen ) is professor of German language and folklore at the US University of Vermont in Burlington (Vermont) and an internationally recognized paremiologist .

Mieder attended the Carl-Jacob-Burckhardt-Gymnasium in Lübeck and studied German and French at the Olivet College in Michigan. After studying in Caen , he graduated from the University of Michigan in 1967 with a master's degree . After another stay at the University of Heidelberg , he received his doctorate in 1970 at the Michigan State University with the thesis " The saying in the works Jeremias Gotthelf " for Ph.D.

Wolfgang Mieder is a globally recognized expert on German proverbs and fairy tales . He is the editor of the Supplement Series to Proverbium , the Proverbium: Yearbook of International Proverb Scholarship, and the author of more than a hundred books on proverb .

In 1996 he was elected an external member of the Finnish Academy of Sciences .

Publications

  • Proverbs - Proverbs : Studies on the history, meaning and function of German proverbs. 1992.
  • Proverbs Are Never Out of Season: Popular Wisdom in the Modern Age . 1993
  • Proverbs: A Handbook . 2004
  • English Expressions. ISBN 978-3-15-009288-0
  • The black spider. Explanations and documents. ISBN 978-3-15-008161-7
  • Grimm's fairy tale, modern. Prose, poems, caricatures. ISBN 978-3-15-009554-6
  • German proverbs and sayings. (Learning materials). ISBN 978-3-15-009550-8
  • Different times, different teachings. Proverbs between tradition and innovation. ISBN 978-3-8340-0030-9
  • Wrong words. Antitotes from literature and the media. Collected by Wolfgang Mieder. Quelle & Meyer, Wiesbaden 1997. ISBN 3-494-01261-X .
  • Proverb Iconography. An International Bibliography. New York 1999.
  • Saying. In: Small literary forms in individual representations (= Reclam's Universal Library 18187). Stuttgart 2002, pp. 211-240.
  • "Love me, don't love me ..." Studies and evidence on the flower oracle. Praesens Verlag, Vienna 2001. ISBN 978-3-7069-0125-3
  • The rat catcher from Hameln. The legend in literature, media and caricature. Praesens Verlag, Vienna 2002. ISBN 978-3-7069-0175-8
  • "The big fish eat the small ones". A saying about human nature in literature, media, and cartoons. Praesens Verlag, Vienna 2003. ISBN 978-3-7069-0182-6
  • "Wine, women and song". To the alleged Luther saying in art, music, literature, media and caricatures. Praesens Verlag, Vienna 2004. ISBN 978-3-7069-0266-3
  • “See nothing, hear nothing, say nothing”. The three wise monkeys in art, literature, media and caricatures. Praesens Verlag, Vienna 2005. ISBN 978-3-7069-0248-9
  • “Cogito, ergo sum” - I think therefore I am. The Descartes quote in literature, media and caricatures. Praesens Verlag, Vienna 2006. ISBN 978-3-7069-0398-1
  • Hansel and Gretel. The fairy tale in art, music, literature, media and caricatures. Praesens Verlag, Vienna 2007. ISBN 978-3-7069-0469-8
  • “Fairy tales have short legs”: Modern fairy tale reminiscences in literature, media and caricatures. Praesens Verlag, Vienna 2009.

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personal data
SURNAME Bodice, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist and paremiologist (proverb)
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Nossen