Oskar Loorits

Oskar Loorits (born 27 Oktoberjul / November 9 1900greg in Kõpu, Viljandi County, .. † December 12, 1961 in Uppsala ) was an Estonian folklorist and scholar of religion.

Career

Loorits initially studied folklore at Walter Anderson at the University of Tartu ( German: Dorpat ) and received his doctorate there in 1926 Between 1927 and 1941 he was a lecturer in Estonian and Comparative Folklore ( in the last three years as Chair Anderson ). . From 1927 to 1942 he was director of the next Eesti Rahvaluule Arhiiv (Archive of Estonian folklore ). In 1938 he became a member of the Academy of Sciences of Estonia. In 1944, he fled to Sweden, where he worked until 1947 as an archive assistant. He then worked as a research assistant at the folkminnesarkivet to dialect -och shortly before his death ( dialect and folk song archive) Uppsala University.

Publications (selection )

• Livonian tales and legends variants. Helsinki 1926 ( Folklore Fellows ' Communications Vol 21, No 1 = 66).
• The North German hobgoblin in the eastern Baltic. Dorpat in 1931.
• Estonian folklore and mythology. Tartu, inter alia, In 1932.
• The battered and avenging fire. Dorpat in 1935 ( Commentationes Archivi traditionum popularium Estoniae; 1)
• Some notes on the repertoire of the Estonian Folk - Tale from: Eesti Rahvaluule Archiivi Toimetused 6, Tartu 1937