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Ukrainian topics on the pages of Am Ur-Quell

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Taran Olena
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167-173
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39(477)(051)
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Taran, O. (2019) Ukrainian topics on the pages of Am Ur-Quell. Materials to Ukrainian Ethnology, 18 (21), 167–173.

Author

Taran Olena

candidate of historical sciences, researcher of the department "Ukrainian Ethnological Center" of the M. Rylskyi Institute of Art studies, Folkloristics and Ethnology of the NAS of Ukraine.

 

Ukrainian topics on the pages of Am Ur-Quell

 

Abstract

The article deals with the 130th anniversary of establishing the ethnological journal Am Ur-Quell [At the Original Source in German], as well as with the covering, on its pages, of the place of Ukrainian studies in the context of the Austrian discourse of the humanities of the late XIXth century. The journal’s constant editor-in-chief was the Austrian ethnologist and folklorist of Jewish origin Friedrich Salomon Krauss. By publishing the collected South Slavonic folklore (guslar songs, fairy tales, stories, anecdotes) in Am UrQuell, F. Krauss asserted his status of an outstanding specialist in the field of South Slavonic folklore, and transformed the journal itself into one of the most influential German-language folkloric editions in Europe in the 1890s. While addressing his staff, F. Krauss emphasized that folklore is an international science. Am Ur-Quell spread far beyond Austria-Hungary and was, accordingly, a representative and recorder of ethnology as a science in the country. In general, in this decade, F. Krauss’s credo was to bring folklore to the top of the German anthropological discourse of the humanities. Therefore, it is obvious that at every opportunity F. Krauss supported scholars and amateurs by distributing and popularizing folkloric collections of the German, Jewish, and Slavonic peoples. At the same time, he cared about the proper scientific level of his publication, which required a lot of physical, emotional, and communicative efforts. Am Ur-Quell held powerful popularization of folklore led to the formation of more than a dozen new folkloric societies in the 1890s in Germany and Austria-Hungary. Ukrainian-themed issues appeared on the pages of Am Ur-Quell as early as in the initial year of the edition and were represented by folkloric collections and analytical articles by Raimund Kaindl, Ivan Franko, Vasyl Shchurat, Fedir Vovk, and J. Robinsohn. The attention of the scholars was focused on the Ukrainians’ folklore, folk calendar, mythology, moral and ethical relations within the community.

 

Keywords

Am Ur-Quell, Friedrich Krauss, collector, ethnography, folklore.

 

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