Franz Felix Adalbert Kuhn
Adalbert Kuhn
Franz Felix Adalbert Kuhn (19 November 1812 – 5 May 1881) was a German
folklorist
.
Kuhn was born in
Jakob Grimm's Deutsche Mythologie, he first devoted himself to German stories and legends, and published Märkische Sagen und Märchen (1842), Norddeutsche Sagen, Märchen und Gebräuche (1848), and Sagen, Gebräuche und Märchen aus Westfalen (1859).[1]
But it is on Kuhn's researches into the language and history of the
homonymy. Kuhn was also the editor of the Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschung auf dem Gebiete der Indogermanischen Sprachen, which was at his time the standard periodical on the subject.[1]
Kuhn died in Berlin. See obituary notice by C. F. H. Bruchmann in Bursian's Biographisches Jahrbuch (1881) and J. Schmidt in the above Zeitschrift, xxvi. n.s. 6.[1]
Notes
- ^ a b c Chisholm 1911.
References
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Kuhn, Franz Felix Adalbert". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 15 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 941.
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