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<div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content mw-content-ltr" lang="de" dir="ltr"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="de" dir="ltr"><p><b>Stith Thompson</b> (* <a href="7._M%C3%A4rz" title="7. März">7. März</a> <a href="1885" title="1885">1885</a> in Bloomfield (Kentucky); † <a href="13._Januar" title="13. Januar">13. Januar</a> <a href="1976" title="1976">1976</a> in <a href="Columbus_(Indiana)" title="Columbus (Indiana)">Columbus (Indiana)</a>) war ein <a href="USA" class="mw-redirect" title="USA">US-amerikanischer</a> <a href="Volkskunde" title="Volkskunde">Volkskundler</a>.
</p><p>Als Vertreter der so genannten <i><a href="Finnische_Schule" class="mw-redirect" title="Finnische Schule">finnischen Schule</a></i> (geographisch-historische Methode) der <a href="Erz%C3%A4hlforschung" title="Erzählforschung">Erzählforschung</a> überarbeitete und ergänzte er zuerst 1927 und dann noch einmal 1961 die ursprünglich 1910 veröffentlichte Klassifikation von Märchen- und Schwankgruppen von <a href="Antti_Aarne" title="Antti Aarne">Antti Aarne</a> (<a href="Aarne-Thompson-Index" class="mw-redirect" title="Aarne-Thompson-Index">Aarne-Thompson-Index</a>).
</p><p>Seit 1947 war er Mitglied der <a href="American_Philosophical_Society" title="American Philosophical Society">American Philosophical Society</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
1959 erhielten Thompson, sowie sein Kollege <a href="Archer_Taylor" title="Archer Taylor">Archer Taylor</a> die <a href="Ehrendoktor" title="Ehrendoktor">Ehrendoktorwürde</a> der <a href="Christian-Albrechts-Universit%C3%A4t_zu_Kiel" title="Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel">Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel</a><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Veröffentlichungen_(Auswahl)"><span id="Ver.C3.B6ffentlichungen_.28Auswahl.29"></span>Veröffentlichungen (Auswahl)</h2></div>
<ul><li><i>Tales of the North-American Indians.</i> Selected and annotated by Stith Thompson. Harvard University Press, Cambridge (Mass.) 1929</li>
<li><i>The Types of the Folktale. A Classification and Bibliography. Antti Aarne’s Verzeichnis der Märchentypen (FF Communications No. 3) translated and enlarged</i> (= <i><a href="Folklore_Fellows%E2%80%99_Communications" title="Folklore Fellows’ Communications">Folklore Fellows’ Communications</a>.</i> Bd. 74). Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, Helsinki 1928.</li>
<li><i>The Types of the Folktale. A Classification and Bibliography. Antti Aarne’s Verzeichnis der Märchentypen (FFC No. 3) translated and enlarged.</i> (= <i><a href="Folklore_Fellows%E2%80%99_Communications" title="Folklore Fellows’ Communications">Folklore Fellows’ Communications</a>.</i> Bd. 184). 2. Auflage. Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, Helsinki 1961.</li>
<li><i>Motif-index of folk-literature.</i> Indiana University Press, Bloomington/London 1955.</li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Literatur">Literatur</h2></div>
<ul><li>Eldon S. Branda: <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fth26">Thompson, Stith</a>.</i> In: Texas State Historical Association (Hrsg.) <i>Handbook of Texas Online.</i> Texas State Historical Association, Denton (Texas) 2010.</li>
<li>Peggy Martin: <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://hdl.handle.net/2022/2686">Stith Thompson: His Life and His Role in Folklore Scholarship, with a Bibliography.</a></i> (= <i>Folklore Monographs Series.</i> Band 2). Folklore Publications Group, Bloomington (Indiana) o. J.</li></ul>
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<li>Eldon Stephen Branda: <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/thompson-stith">Thompson, Stith (1885–1976).</a></i> Eintrag im <i>Handbook of Texas</i>, Erstveröffentlichung 1976, zuletzt aktualisiert am 1. Juli 1995.</li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/108363657">Stith Thompson</a> in der Datenbank <a href="Find_a_Grave" title="Find a Grave">Find a Grave</a><span style="display:none">Vorlage:Findagrave/Wartung/Gleiche Kenner im Quelltext und in Wikidata</span></li></ul>
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<li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><span class="cite"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Stith+Thompson&amp;title=&amp;subject=&amp;subdiv=&amp;mem=&amp;year=&amp;year-max=&amp;dead=&amp;keyword=&amp;smode=advanced"><i>Member History: Stith Thompson.</i></a> American Philosophical Society,<span class="Abrufdatum"> abgerufen am 29.&nbsp;Januar 2019</span>.</span><span style="display: none;" class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fde.wikipedia.org%3AStith+Thompson&amp;rft.title=Member+History%3A+Stith+Thompson&amp;rft.description=Member+History%3A+Stith+Thompson&amp;rft.identifier=https%3A%2F%2Fsearch.amphilsoc.org%2Fmemhist%2Fsearch%3Fcreator%3DStith%2BThompson%26title%3D%26subject%3D%26subdiv%3D%26mem%3D%26year%3D%26year-max%3D%26dead%3D%26keyword%3D%26smode%3Dadvanced&amp;rft.publisher=American+Philosophical+Society">&nbsp;</span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-2">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Hari S. Upadhyaya: <cite class="lang" lang="en" dir="auto" style="font-style:italic">Reminiscences of an Octogenarian Folklorist (Stith Thompson)</cite>. In: <cite class="lang" lang="en" dir="auto" style="font-style:italic">Asian Folklore Studies</cite>. 27. Jahrgang, <span style="white-space:nowrap">Nr.<span style="display:inline-block;width:.2em">&nbsp;</span>2</span>, 1968, <span style="white-space:nowrap">S.<span style="display:inline-block;width:.2em">&nbsp;</span>107–145</span> (englisch, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110812034020/http://nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/publications/afs/pdf/a209.pdf">nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp</a> (<span class="webarchiv-memento"><a href="Webarchivierung#Begrifflichkeiten" title="Webarchivierung">Memento</a></span> des <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r250917974">
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