Rolf Wilhelm Brednich

 
Rolf Wilhelm Brednich (born February 1935 in [[Worms) is a German Europeanist ethnologist and ethnographer ("Volkskundler") and folklorist.
Biography.
Brednich studied "Volkskunde", [[German studies]], history, and [[theology]] at the Universities of [[Tübingen]] and [[Mainz]], in Germany, getting his doctorate from the latter with a dissertation entitled "Volkserzählungen und Volksglaube von den Schicksalsfrauen".
Between 1963 and 1980 he was the leader of the [[Deutsches Volksliedarchiv]] in Freiburg. From 1965 through 1974 he was head of the commission for song, music and dance research within the [[Deutsche Gesellschaft für Volkskunde]]. From 1969 und 1881, he taught at the [[University of Freiburg]], receiving his [[habilitation]] in 1973 with his "Die Liedpublizistik im Flugblatt des 15. bis 17. Jahrhunderts".
In 1975 Brednich edited the "Volkskunde-Bibliographie". In 
1982 he became editor-in-chief of the [[Encyclopedia of the Folktale]] and co-editor of the journal "Fabula". Between 1983 and 1999 he was head of the "Volkskundliche Kommission für Niedersachsen e.V." and from 1991 through 1999 head of the "Deutsche Gesellschaft für Volkskunde e.V.". In 2000 he was designated "Senior Honorary Research Fellow" at "Stout Centre" of the [[Victoria University of Wellington]] in [[New Zealand]]. Since 2005 he has been Visiting Professor of Anthropology at the "School of Social and Cultural Studies" at that university. He has carried out research in Germany, [[Canada]], and New Zealand.
Among the general German-speaking public, he made his name with collections of [[urban legends]], starting with "Die Spinne in der Yucca-Palme".
Selected works.
[[Category:1935 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:German ethnologists]]
[[Category:German ethnographers]]
[[Category:German folklorists]]
[[Category:Victoria University of Wellington faculty]]
[[Category:People from Worms, Germany]]
[[Category:People from Rhenish Hesse]]
[[Category:German male non-fiction writers]]