ANDREJ MELICHERČÍK – OSOBNOSŤ V DOBE, DOBA V OSOBNOSTI (NA PRÍKLADE JEDNEJ BÁDATEĽSKEJ TÉMY)
Andrej Melicherčík – A Personality in One Era, an Era in One Personality (through the Example of a Research Topic)

Summary/Abstract: Prof. PhDr. Andrej Melicherčík, CSc. (1917–1966) is one of the founding personalitiesof professional folklore studies in Slovakia. During his studies of Slovak and Germanat the Slovak University (today, Comenius University) in Bratislava, he was largelyin fluenced by the lectures of P. G. Bogatyryov who was at that time working at theBratislava university. Bogatyryov’s application of functional structuralism was aninspiration for Melicherčík’s research and theoretical thinking about the phenomenaof traditional culture, specifically folklore, but the paper also focuses on Melicherčík’sapplication of the so-called Marxist methodology. The article deals with the thematicand methodological contexts of Melicherčík’s significant work on the contemporaryhistorical and political turning points of the 20thcentury in Czechoslovakia. Theauthor focused on one of the dominant topics of Melicherčík’s research programme– the robber/Jánošík tradition, and describes the underlying conceptual contexts andthe methodological tools used. The objects of analysis were Melicherčík’s monographbooks on this topic and chapters in synthesis works.

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