the last civil war vet died on august 2, 1956.
what year did the last civil war vet die?
august 2 , 1956
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a special section of șăineanu's research in the same area was dedicated to comparative mythology. his contributions have led folklorist linda dégh to deem him "one of the pioneers in classifying folktales according to their types". this method was employed in "basmele române", whose content was structured into both types and "cycles". in "basmele române", arguing in favor of applying the principles introduced by hasdeu, șăineanu analyzed romanian folktales in their native and national content. nevertheless, he followed the conclusions of other folklorists on the universality of folklore, suggesting that the world's entire folkloric literature was structured into some tens of groups. with "studii folclorice", the researcher tested an anthropological investigation into the characteristics and supposed origins of each myth, in particular "meșterul manole", "baba dochia" and the "iele" creatures. in "les rites de la construction", șăineanu focused on a set of ballads with a similar construction- and immurement-related subject, present throughout east central or eastern europe, likening the romanian "meșterul manole" legend to its counterparts in serbian ("zidanje skadra"), hungarian ("kőműves kelemen") and other regional folkloric traditions. according to critics john neubauer and marcel cornis-pope, he was "the first author to attempt a synthetic treatment of the immurement motif in eastern europe". the two also note that șăineanu, who believed that the motif reached its potential significance only in eastern europe, stayed clear of the controversy surrounding the geographic and ethnic sources of the ballad (while specifying his belief that the hungarian version followed a romanian source), and discussed "zidanje skadra" and "meșterul manole" as the most crafted variants of the myth.
lazăr șăineanu