Karla Absolonová-Bufková

Karla Anna Maximiliana Absolonová-Bufková (; 7 February 1855 – 29 November 1941) was a Czech writer, ethnographer and folklorist. Absolonová-Bufková wrote children's books and plays, and collected Moravian customs, folktales, legends and Moravian folk music.

Early life Karolina Anna Maximiliana Wankelová was born on 7 February 1855 in Blansko, Moravia (present-day Czech Republic) to Jindřich Wankel and (née Šímová). Absolonová-Bufková's father was a palaeontologist and archaeologist known as the "father of Moravian archaeology" and her mother was an ethnographer and national revivalist. She collected Moravian customs, folktales, legends and music and was particularly interested in the ornamentation of folk objects. She initially published articles about her work in women's magazines. She then published her collected Moravian legends in the book Z Ječmínkovy říše: moravské povídky a pověsti (1897), With her sisters, Absolonová-Bufková prepared ethnographic exhibitions in Olomouc (1885) and Prague (1895). and , a writer and suffragist. The family lived in Boskovice, South Moravia.

In 1887, Absolonová-Bufková married Eduard Bufka, a clerk and banker. Po stopách slovanských na Rujáně (1900) Moravské pověsti a pohádky zejména z Krasu moravského (1920) Tulák: drama ve čtyřech jednáních (1925)