Erna Pomerantseva

In this name that follows East Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Vasilievna and the family name is Pomerantseva.

Erna Vasilievna Pomerantseva (Russian: Эрна Васильевна Померанцева; 19 April (NS) 1899 – 11 August 1980, née Hoffman) was a Russian folklorist.[1][2]

Biography

Pomerantseva was born on 7 (OS)/19 April (NS) 1899.[1] She graduated in 1922 from the department of history and philology of the Moscow State University. She was an associate professor at the Moscow State University department of folklore from its establishment in 1938 until 1958, and acting head of department from 1957 to 1958.[3]

Pomerantseva's research focused on Russian fairy tales, the connections between literature and folklore, and the role of folklore today. She led many expeditions to collect folklore.[1] In 1964 the earned the degree of Doctor of Historical Sciences at the Institute of Anthropology and Ethnography with the thesis Судьбы русской сказки в XVIII-XX вв. (The fate of the Russian fairy tale in the 17th-20th centuries).[4]

Her work Русские народные сказки (Russian Folk Tales, 1957) was translated into German as Russische Volksmärchen (Akademie Verlag, 1966) and was in its 13th edition in 2021.[5]

Writing in 2009 in the journal Féeries [fr] on the study of Russian fairy tales, Marina Guister (Марина Гистер) wrote that Pomerantseva was a "remarkable folklorist", praising her collection of songs and urban legends and her writings on folk tales.[6]

For some time she signed her articles with double surname "Gofman-Pomerantseva" (Гофман-Померанцева).[7][8]

Pomerantseva died on 11 August 1980, aged 81.

Books

  • Сказки И. Ф. Ковалева (recording and commentary by Э. Гофман and С. Минц (Софья Исааковна Минц (1899—1964))) Moscow, 1941
  • Русские народные сказки (Russian Folk Tales, 1957), translated as: Burde-Schneidewind, Gisela; Pomeranzewa, Erna (1964). Russische Volksmärchen (13. Aufl. Reprint 2021 ed.). Berlin: De Gruyter. ISBN 9783112526682. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
  • Русская народная сказка. М., 1963
  • Судьбы русской сказки. М., 1965
  • Мифологические персонажи в русском фольклоре. М.: Наука, 1975

References

  1. ^ a b c "Померанцева // Краткая литературная энциклопедия. Т. 5. — 1968 (текст)". feb-web.ru (in Russian). The Fundamental Digital Library of Russian Literature and Folklore. Retrieved 2 February 2023.
  2. ^ "Э.В. Померанцева" (in Russian). Institute of Anthropology and Ethnography.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  3. ^ "Кафедра русского устного народного творчества - История" (in Russian). Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
  4. ^ "WorldCat record for thesis". WorldCat. Retrieved 2 February 2023.
  5. ^ "Catalogue record for 1st edition". University College London. Retrieved 2 February 2023.
    "Catalogue record for 13th edition". University College London. Retrieved 2 February 2023.
  6. ^ Guister, Marina (1 July 2009). "Les études sur le conte merveilleux en Russie: Tradition orale et conte littéraire (xixe-xxie siècle)". Féeries (in French) (6): 225–240. doi:10.4000/feeries.715. S2CID 160059951. sa collection de chansons et de romances urbaines est d'une richesse impressionnante ; elle est également l'auteur d'une grande quantité d'études sur le conte populaire : il faut signaler spécialement son article consacré au style individuel du conteur de contes populaires, où elle précise l'importance du classement de contes folkloriques dans le recueil par conteurs, car leur manière de conter se manifeste indépendamment des caractéristiques génériques de chaque texte que ces derniers articulent
  7. ^ Sovetskai͡a ėtnografii͡a, sbornik stateĭ Issues 3-4, 1946
  8. ^ Уникальная коллекция книг Э. В. Гофман-Померанцевой передана в дар Филиалу


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