Erna Vasilievna Pomérantseva (Russian: Эрна Васильевна Померанцева; 1899-1980, née Hoffman) was a Russian folklorist.[1][2]

Pomerantseva was born on 7/19 April 1899, and graduated in 1922 from the philological and historical faculty of Moscow State University.

She was an associate professor in the Moscow State University department of folklore from its foundation in 1938 until 1958, and acting head of department in 1957–1958.[3]

Her 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] Her 1964 thesis at the Institute of Anthropology and Ethnography had the title 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 Féeries on the study of Russian fairy tales, Marina Guister wrote that Pomerantseva was a "remarkable folklorist", praising her collection of songs and urban legends and her writings on folk tales.[6]

Erna Pomérantseva died on 11 August 1980, aged 81.

Selected publications

  • Русские народные сказки (Russian Folk Tales, 1957), translated as: Burde-Schneidewind, Gisela; Pomeranzewa, Erna (2022). Russische Volksmärchen (13. Aufl. Reprint 2021 ed.). Berlin: De Gruyter. ISBN 9783112526682.

References

  1. 1 2 "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. Archived from the original on 17 April 2013.
  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


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