Elfriede Moser-Rath

Elfriede Moser- Rath ( born February 3, 1926 in Vienna, † 1993 in Unterhaching ) was an Austrian folklorist and narrative researcher.

She received her PhD in 1949 in Vienna with the work studies the source of customer and motifs top Irish folk tale from the Pramberger collection.

In 1955 she married Hans Moser, the director of the Bavarian State Office for Ethnology in Munich, and left Vienna, where she received a first job at the Austrian Museum of Ethnology. In 1969 she went as an assistant to Göttingen, where she collaborated on the editorial board of the Encyclopedia of the tale. In 1982 she became a professor of Folklore.

The scholar was one of the outstanding representatives of a historical narrative research that has submitted, in particular in the field of baroque Catholic sermons pioneering work source. In addition, they also explored the waverers literature of early modern period.

Works (selection)

  • Predigtmärlein the Baroque period. Example, Sage, farce and fable in spiritual sources of the Upper German area. Edit by Elfriede Moser -Rath. Berlin [ et al ] 1964.
  • " Merry Company ". Schwank and wit of the 17th and 18th century cultural and social history context. Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-476-00553-4.
  • The church people read the riot act. Everyday life in the mirror of South German Baroque sermons. Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-476-00740-5.
  • Small writings on popular literature of the Baroque. Edited by Ulrich Marzolph among others, Göttingen 1994, ISBN 3-509-01651-3.
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