Papers, 1884-1930.

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Papers, 1884-1930.

Collection consists of research materials, manuscripts, illustrations, and published materials on south Slavic folklore compiled by Austrian ethnographer and folklorist Friedrich Salomo Krauss. Also includes hundreds of drawings by Max Lehmann. Although most of the materials in the collection are in German, some are in Slavic.

15 boxes (7.5 linear ft.)3 oversize boxes.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7409650

University of California, Los Angeles

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Krauss, Friedrich S. (Friedrich Salomo), 1859-1938

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Krauss was born in 1859 in Pozega, Slavonia; awarded degree in classical philology from the Univ. of Vienna in 1882; later turned his attention to south Slavic ethnography and folklore; took field trip from 1884-85 to Bosnia, Herzegovina, and Dalmatia, and amassed one of the largest collections of Guslar epic songs; he later turned his attention to erotic folklore, which helped lay the groundwork for the emerging Viennese psychoanalytic school; books include: Sitte und Brauch der Südslaven (188...