Folklorist

This page lists 798 biographies of folklorists, covering lives from 1561 to 1995. Featuring Barry Jean Ancelet, Dmytro Yavornytsky and Elsa Enäjärvi-Haavio. Each profile gives life dates, nationality, education, positions held and a sourced, attributed account of the person's life.

People in this occupation

Iona Opie

1923 – 2017

Roy Judge

1929 – 2000

Anu Korb

b. 1950

Raquel Barros

1919 – 2014

Wolfgang Brückner

1920 – 1943

Samuel Adalberg

1868 – 1939

Katharina Dobler

1918 – 2003

Mahammad Hatami Tantekin

1935 – 2016

Nanjaiah Honganuru

b. 1970

Lucile Hoerr Charles

1903 – 1965

Jan Blake

Christine Reimer

1858 – 1943

Margaret Helen James

1859 – 1938

John W. Roberts

b. 1949

Deborah Kapchan

Leonard W. Roberts

1912 – 1983

Norah Montgomerie

1909 – 1998

Galit Hasan-Rokem

b. 1945

Henry Glassie

b. 1941

Alice Gomme

1853 – 1938

Judith McCulloh

1935 – 2014

Raisa Husak

1944 – 2017

Edna Garrido Ramírez

1913 – 2010

Jacqueline Simpson

b. 1930

Sixto Minier

1920 – 2008

Percy Macqueen

1883 – 1970

Hildegardes Vianna

1919 – 2005

Jacques Labrecque

1917 – 1995

Emmanuel Cosquin

1841 – 1919

Vangelis Liapis

1914 – 2008

Lee Haring

b. 1930

Patrice Coirault

1875 – 1959

Alex Helm

1920 – 1970

Enys Tregarthen

1851 – 1923

Fredy Clue

b. 1995

Gabrielle Yablonsky

Arif Acaloğlu

1956 – 2023

Go. Ru. Channabasappa

Rachel Harriette Busk

1831 – 1907

Simion Florea Marian

1847 – 1907

Seok Ju-seon

1911 – 1996

Hedwig Beit

1896 – 1973

Anna Hadwick Gayton

1899 – 1977

John C. Campbell

1867 – 1919

Bo Almqvist

1931 – 2013

Sarat Chandra Mitra

1863 – 1938

Mela Sedillo

1903 – 1989

Joravarsinh Jadav

1940 – 2025

Eloise Hubbard Linscott

1897 – 1978

Joe Watson

b. 1881

Loyal Jones

1928 – 2023

Frances Gillmor

1903 – 1993

Jan Davidson

Amy Skillman

Igor Tõnurist

1947 – 2021

Carmen Roy

1919 – 2006

Keigo Seki

1899 – 1990

T. E. Lones

1860 – 1944

Evgeny Anichkov

1866 – 1937

Harold Scheub

1931 – 2019

Aníbal Velásquez

b. 1936

Theo Brown

1914 – 1993

Marit Anne Hauan

b. 1955

Donald J. Ward

1930 – 2004

Mária Mázorová

1928 – 2016

Gwladys F. Hughes

1907 – 1996

Margaret Fay Shaw

1903 – 2004

Berenice Chávez

1921 – 2008

Edward Lovett

1852 – 1933

Nikolaï Petrovitch Andreev

1892 – 1942

Bronisława Kondratowicz

1854 – 1949

Xenophon Akoglou

1895 – 1961

Antonio Machado Álvarez

1846 – 1893

Archie Green

1917 – 2009

Shmuel Lehman

1886 – 1941

Peter Opie

1918 – 1982

Estella Weeks

1886 – 1969

Ellen Stekert

b. 1935

Ruby Pickens Tartt

1880 – 1974

Marianna Kambouroglou

1819 – 1890

Marian Roalfe Cox

1860 – 1916

Verjine Svazlian

b. 1934

Thomas Cheney

1901 – 1993

Eric Maple

1916 – 1994

Jens Christian Svabo

1746 – 1824

May Elliot Hobbs

1877 – 1956

Elsa Enäjärvi-Haavio

1901 – 1951

Lolita Huning Pooler

1889 – 1966

Seán O Súilleabháin

1903 – 1996

Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco

1852 – 1931

Elaine J. Lawless

b. 1947

Anzori Barkalaja

b. 1968

Cleofas Martínez Jaramillo

1878 – 1956

Nick Spitzer

b. 1950

Patrick Kennedy

1801 – 1873

Bertrand N. O. Walker

1870 – 1927

Emile Henri van Heurck

1871 – 1931

Lucy Nulton

1903 – 2000

Risto Järv

b. 1971

Harold William Thompson

1891 – 1964