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28 results
| title | full_name | born | died | nationality | occupation | url |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joseph Jacobs | Joseph Jacobs | 1854 | 1916 | Australian | folklorist, translator, literary critic, social scientist, historian and writer of English literature who became a notable collector and publisher of English folklore | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Jacobs |
| Alan Dundes | Alan Dundes | 1934 | 2005 | American | folklorist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Dundes |
| Maximilian Lambertz | Maximilian Lambertz | 1882 | 1963 | Austrian | linguist, folklorist, and a major personality of Albanology | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximilian_Lambertz |
| Howard Schwartz | Howard Schwartz | 1945 | n/a | null | widely regarded folklorist, author, poet, and editor of dozens of books | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Schwartz |
| Ruth Rubin | Ruth Rubin | null | null | Canadian | folklorist, singer, poet, and scholar of Yiddish culture and music | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Rubin |
| Lazăr Șăineanu | Lazăr Șăineanu | 1859 | 1934 | Romanian | philologist, linguist, folklorist and cultural historian | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazăr_Șăineanu |
| Gershon Legman | Gershon Legman | 1917 | 1999 | American | cultural critic and folklorist, best known for his books The Rationale of the Dirty Joke (1968) and The Horn Book: Studies in Erotic Folklore and Bibliography (1964) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gershon_Legman |
| Dan Ben-Amos | Dan Ben-Amos | 1934 | n/a | null | folklorist and professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, where he holds the Graduate Program Chair for the Department of Folklore and Folklife | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Ben-Amos |
| Paul Radin | Paul Radin | 1883 | 1959 | American | cultural anthropologist and folklorist of the early twentieth century specializing in Native American languages and cultures | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Radin |
| Benjamin A. Botkin | Benjamin Albert Botkin | 1901 | 1975 | American | folklorist and scholar | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_A._Botkin |
| Maja Bošković-Stulli | Maja Bošković-Stulli | 1922 | 2012 | Croatian | slavicist and folklorist, literary historian, writer, publisher and an academic, noted for her extensive research of Croatian oral literature | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maja_Bošković-Stulli |
| Friedrich Salomon Krauss | Friedrich Salomon Krauss | 1859 | 1938 | Croatian | Jewish sexologist, ethnographer, folklorist, and Slavist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Salomon_Krauss |
| Arthur Fauset | Arthur Huff Fauset | 1899 | 1983 | American | civil rights activist, anthropologist, folklorist, and educator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Fauset |
| Shelley Posen | Shelley (I. Sheldon) Posen | null | null | Canadian | folklorist, singer and songwriter, a member of the folk trio Finest Kind, and a former writer of the 'Songfinder' column for Sing Out! In the 1970s, while still a graduate student, he was the Director of Mariposa in the Schools | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelley_Posen |
| Simon J. Bronner | Simon J. Bronner | 1954 | n/a | American | folklorist, ethnologist, historian, sociologist, educator, college dean, and author | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_J._Bronner |
| Harry Oster | Dr. Harry Oster | 1923 | 2001 | American | folklorist and musicologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Oster |
| Ignác Kúnos | Ignác Kúnos | 1860 | 1945 | Hungarian | linguist, turkologist, folklorist, a correspondent member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignác_Kúnos |
| Nikolay Kaufman | Nikolay Yankov Kaufman | 1925 | 2018 | Bulgarian | musicologist, folklorist and composer, sometimes cited as Bulgaria's foremost scholar in his field | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolay_Kaufman |
| Felix Liebrecht | Felix Liebrecht | 1812 | 1890 | German | folklorist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Liebrecht |
| George Korson | George Korson | 1899 | 1967 | null | folklorist, journalist, and historian | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Korson |
| Moisei Beregovsky | Moisei Iakovlevich Beregovsky | 1892 | 1961 | Soviet | Jewish folklorist and ethnomusicologist from Ukraine, who published mainly in Russian and Yiddish | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moisei_Beregovsky |
| Nathan Ausubel | Nathan Ausubel | 1898 | 1986 | American | historian, folklorist and humorist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Ausubel |
| Margit Frenk | Margit Frenk Freund | 1925 | n/a | German | philologist, folklorist and translator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margit_Frenk |
| Wolfgang Steinitz | Wolfgang Steinitz | 1905 | 1967 | German | linguist and folklorist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Steinitz |
| Mark Klempner | Mark Klempner | 1956 | 2019 | null | folklorist, oral historian and social commentator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Klempner |
| Moshe Basson | Moshe Basson | 1950 | n/a | Israeli | chef, restaurateur, and food folklorist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moshe_Basson |
| Isidor Levin | Isidor Levin | 1919 | 2018 | Latvian | Jewish-born Soviet/Estonian folklorist, narrative researcher, theologian, and Professor Emeritus at the St. Petersburg Institute of Religion and Philosophy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isidor_Levin |
| Max Grünbaum | Maier "Max" Grünbaum | 1817 | 1898 | German | Orientalist, historian, folklorist, and philologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Grünbaum |