Central archive of the German folk tale

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The Central Archive of German Folk Tales is an archive for narrative research based in Marburg .

It was founded by Gottfried Henßen in 1937 as the main center for German narrative research in Berlin and set up as the central archive of German folk tales after the war in Marburg. Today it is a department of the Institute for Central European Folk Research at the Philipps University of Marburg . It is headed by Gerhard Heilfurth . The legacy of Johannes Bolte is part of the inventory . The archive contains around 70,000 numbers.

Individual evidence

  1. http://www.universitaetssammlungen.de/sammlung/958
  2. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-476-98777-8_11

Coordinates: 50 ° 48 ′ 51.3 "  N , 8 ° 46 ′ 17.2"  E

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