Heinrich von Wlislocki in the memories of his contemporaries
Heinrich von Wlislocki in the memories of his contemporaries

Summary/Abstract: The article presents Heinrich von Wlislocki – a folklorist, literary historian, linguist and educator, widely known in the scientific circles of Europe of the late XIX century, as one of the first XIX century European researcher of the gypsies – in the memories of his contemporaries. He was a Doctor of Philosophy, one of those whom his colleagues called a “friend of the Gypsies”, he went to wander with the camp of Transylvanian gypsies to collect field material directly in their midst. As a result, about 80 papers were published in selected publications, as well as in well-known scientific journals in Europe. Most often, his publications could be seen in the Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society, of which he was a member. Being a contemporary of George Henry Borrow (1803–1881), Alexander Gheorghe Paspati (1814–1891), Charles Godfrey Leland (1824–1903), Francis Hindes Grum (1851–1902), Anton Herrmann (1851–1926), Hans Ferdinand Helmolt (1865–1929), Heinrich von Wlislocki (1856–1907) was one of the few folklorists and connoisseurs of Gypsy life and culture of the XIX century. The latter completely immersed themselves in the life of the Gypsy, mastering for the first time the ethnographic method of included observation. It was a heroic period of studying folklore in Europe, when dedicated scientists created a folkloric field of research from the scratch. 110 years passed since the death of Heinrich von Wlislocki but this did not erase his name from the historical memory, folklorist researchers still refer to his works, including them in scientific circulation.

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