Alexander Haggerty Krappe

Alexander Haggerty Krappe (* 1894 in Boston, † November 30, 1947 ) was an American linguist and ethnologist German descent.

Life and work

Krappe grew up in Berlin, where he studied from 1915 to 1916, then at the University of Iowa. He received his doctorate in 1919 at the University of Chicago with the work of alliteration in the Chanson de Roland and in the Carmen de prodicione Guenonis (Iowa City 1921) and was a lecturer at Columbia University, and Professor of Romance Languages ​​at the University of Minnesota.

Krappe 1919 married Edith Smith, the daughter of the mathematician Professor Arthur G. Smith of the University of Iowa and the folklorist Grace Partridge Smith ( 1869-1959 ).

Other works

  • The Legend of Roderick, last of the Visigoth kings, and the Ermanarich Cycle, Heidelberg 1923
  • Balor with the evil eye. Studies in Celtic and French literature, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1927, 1978 Philadelphia
  • Études et de folklore de mythology germaniques, Paris 1928
  • The Science of Folk - lore, New York / London 1930, 1962, 1965, 1974
  • Universal mythology, Paris 1930
  • La genèse of mythes, Paris 1938, 1952
  • ( Translator with Francis Peabody Magoun ) The Grimms ' German folk tales, Carbondale 1960
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