Wilhelm Mannhardt (March 26, 1831,
Friedrichstadt
Friedrichstadt (; da, Frederiksstad) is a town in the district of Nordfriesland, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is situated on the river Eider approx. 12 km south of Husum.
History
The town was founded in 1621 by Dutch settlers. D ...
– December 25, 1880,
Danzig) was a German mythologist and
folklorist
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. He is known for his work on
Germanic mythology
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Origins
As the Germanic lang ...
, on
Baltic mythology
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, and other pre-Christian European pantheons; and for his championing of the
solar theory
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, namely in the early years of his career, under the influence of
Jakob Grimm. Later on, Mannhardt focused more on vegetation spirits from an evolutionist point of view, namely the primitive tree cult and its later developments.
[Rosa, Frederico Delgado, 2018]
« Avant Le Rameau d’Or : biographie de Wilhelm Mannhardt, précurseur oublié de James Frazer »
in Bérose, Encyclopédie en ligne sur l’histoire de l’anthropologie et des savoirs ethnographiques, Paris, IIAC-LAHIC, UMR 8177.
Works
*''De nominibus germanorum propriis quae ad regnum referuntur observationis specimen'' (1857)
Germanische Mythen: Forschungen(1858)
*
Die Götterwelt der deutschen und nordischen Völker' (1860)
*
Roggenwolf und Roggenhund' (1865)
*
Die Korndämonen' (1868)
*
Letto-Preussische Götterlehre' (1870)
*
Wald- und Feldkulte Band 1: Der Baumkultus der Germanen und ihrer Nachbarstämme: mythologische Untersuchungen'' (1875 - reprint)
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Wald- und Feldkulte Band 2: Antike Wald- und Feldkulte aus nordeuropäischer Überlieferung erläutert'' (1877 - reprint)
*''Klytia'' (1875)
*''Gedichte. Mit einer Lebenskizze des Dichters.
dited by L. and G. Mannhardt.' (1881)
*
Mythologische Forschungen' (1884)
References
External links
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People from Friedrichstadt
German folklorists
1831 births
1880 deaths
Balticists
Germanic studies scholars
Writers on Germanic paganism
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