Deutsche Gesellschaft für Volkskunde

LC control no.	n 50002249
Descriptive conventions	rda
Corporate name heading	Deutsche Gesellschaft für Volkskunde *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	DGV (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Volkskunde)
See also	Verband der Vereine für Volkskunde *Browse this term in* LC Authorities Successor: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft *Browse this term in* LC Authorities
Beginning date	1963
Ending date	2022
Associated country	Germany
Field of activity	Folklore Ethnology Culture
Found in	Arbeit, Freizeit, Reisen, c1995: t.p. (DGV) p. vii (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Volkskunde) Wikipedia, viewed 24 January 2023: under Deutsche Gesellschaft für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft (DGEKW, a learned society which acts as the umbrella organization for folklore institutions and as an association of folklorists in the Federal Republic of Germany; founded in 1963 as Deutsche Gesellschaft für Volkskunde (DGV), which continued the work of Verband der Vereine für Volkskunde (originally founded in 1904); renamed Deutsche Gesellschaft für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft in September 2021 [officially with effect from February 2022]) Wikipedia, viewed 24 January 2023: under Zeitschrift für Volkskunde. Beiträge zur Kulturforschung (journal founded in Berlin in 1891; the organ of the local Verein für Volkskunde [from 1904?], it was issued by Verband Deutscher Vereine für Volkskunde from 1929 until 1938; taken up in 1953 by Verband der Vereine für Volkskunde, and then, in 1963, by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Volkskunde)
Associated language	ger