Edmund Mudrak

Edmund Mudrak (27 October 1894 – 12 December 1965) was an Austrian philologist who specialized in Germanic studies.

Biography Edmund Mudrak was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary on 27 October 1894. He studied German, Oriental studies and prehistory at the University of Vienna, gaining his Ph.D. there under the supervision of Georg Hüsing with a thesis on Wayland the Smith.

Mudrak was a member of the and belonged to the mythological school of Leopold von Schroeder. He was a prominent member of the movement. He worked closely with Karl von Spiess on the study of German folklore. From 1939 to 1943, Mudrak worked for Amt Rosenberg. In 1943 he was appointed Professor of Folklore at .

After World War II, Mudrak workes as a teacher at the Akademisches Gymnasium in Vienna, and as a consultant at the Old Catholic Church of Austria. Since 1965 he was together with Karl Tekusch Deputy Chairman of the Muttersprache society in Vienna. Mudrak published a number of works on Germanic folklore, Germanic mythology and literature, which have been published in numerous editions up to the present day. He died in Vienna on 12 December 1965.