Eduard Hoffmann-Krayer
Swiss folklorist

Eduard Hoffmann-Krayer

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Swiss folklorist
Gender:
Male
Places:
Switzerland
Is:
PhilologistEducator
Work field:
AcademiaSocial science
Birth:
5 December 1864(Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland)
Death:
28 November 1936(Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland)
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Eduard Hoffmann-Krayer (1864–1936) was a Swiss folklorist, Germanist and medievalist, from 1900 professor for phonetics, Swiss dialectology and folklore at the University of Basle and founder of the Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Volkskunde in 1896. His 1902 essay Die Volkskunde als Wissenschaft ("Folkloristics as Science") received international attention.