Marianna Sotirianos Kambouroglou (1819–1890), was a Greek

folklorist Folklore studies, less often known as folkloristics, and occasionally tradition studies or folk life studies in the United Kingdom, is the branch of anthropology devoted to the study of folklore. This term, along with its synonyms, gained currenc ...

Life

She was born August 12, 1819, in

Athens Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) is both the capital and largest city of Greece. With a population close to four million, it is also the seventh largest city in the European Union. Athens dominates ...

. Mariana Kambouroglou preserved the history of earlier eras and conserved their traditions, which doubtless would have been lost without her efforts. She was one of the more active representatives of the old Athenian life and of its families. She wrote many notable monographs concerning Athens, and concerning historical and topographical questions. They were notable for their uncommonly descriptive prose and their reasoning. She died in Athens on 21 February, 1890.

Publications

She published many ethnographic articles in periodicals of the era, in ''Byro'', ''Bulletin of the Ethnological and Historical Society of Greece'', and ''Weekly'', among others.

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* * 1819 births 1890 deaths 19th-century Greek writers Greek folklorists Greek women folklorists 19th-century Greek women writers Writers from Athens {{cultural-anthropologist-stub