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Krappe, Alexander Haggerty, 1894-1947

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Personal name headingKrappe, Alexander Haggerty, 1894-1947
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Variant(s)Krappe, A. H., 1894-1947
Krappe, Alexander H., 1894-1947
Haggerty Krappe, Alexander, 1894-1947
Krappe, Alexandre Haggerty, 1894-1947
LocatedBerlin (Germany) Chicago (Ill.)
Birth date1894-07-06
Death date1947-11-30
Place of birthBoston (Mass.)
Place of deathIowa City (Iowa)
Field of activityTranslating and interpreting Folklore Philology Ethnology
AffiliationFriedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin University of Iowa University of Chicago
Profession or occupationTranslators Folklorists Philologists Ethnologists
Found inHis Alliteration in the Chanson de Roland and in the Carmen de prodicione Guenonis, 1921.
Schmidt, Werner. Zum Faktor Feuchtigkeit bei der Herrichtung und Keimung des Kiefersamens, 1936, via Google Books, April 25, 2020: title page ("Translated from the German by A.H. Krappe, February, 1936")
Wikipedia, April 25, 2020 ("Alexander Haggerty Krappe (6 July 1894-30 November 1947) was a folklorist and author. Along with Francis Peabody Magoun, he was the first translator of folktales collected by the Brothers Grimm into the English language. He was also a linguist, teacher, translator of scientific and other materials, a Roman philologist, a comparative mythologist, a classicist and Scandinavianist"; born in Boston, Mass.; educated in Germany after his parents' divorce and attended University of Berlin; later studied at University of Iowa and University of Chicago; Ph. D. in 1919; died in Iowa City, Iowa
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, April 23, 2020 (Krappe, Alexander Haggerty; other names: Krappe, Alexander H.; Haggerty Krappe, Alexander; Krappe, A. H.; (erroneous form); life dates: 1894-1947; occupations: Romanist, ethnologist; other information: grew up in Germany, in the USA from 1917)
Associated languageeng