Mihai Pop

Mihai Pop

Mihai Pop (November 18, 1907 - October 8, 2000) was a Romanian ethnologist. He won the Herder Prize in 1967. Notable works include Obiceiuri tradiţionale româneşti (1978) and Folclor românesc (1998). He was a member of the Romanian Academy.

Biography

Pop was born in Glod village in the commune of Strâmtura in Maramureş County in northern Romania (then part of Austria-Hungary), the son of a Greek-Catholic priest. He pursued studies în a Hungarian High school din Sighetul Marmatiei conducted by munks Piaristi... after the First World War he came to Bucharest. There he pursued studies in literature and philosophy in Bucharest (1925–1929), Slavonic studies (1929–1934) in Prague, Bonn, Warsaw, and obtained a Ph.D. in philology from the University of Bratislava,. He later taught philological sciences at the University of Bucharest , was assistant professor (1936–1939) to the Romanian Literature Department, University of Bucharest led by Dumitru Caracostea, member of the Sociological Research Group, the Romanian Social Institute (ISR), led by Dimitrie Gusti (1929–1936).

During World War II, Pop was appointed to the Romanian Embassy in Bratislava between 1941 and 1944. From 1949, he joined the Folklore Institute of Bucharest, becoming its first coordinator of scientific activity (1949–1954), then as deputy director (1954–1965) and later as director (1965–1974).

He returned to the University of Bucharest in 1957, and was professor (1957–1962) and then professor of folklore (1962–1975) in its Faculty of Romanian language and literature. He was head of the department of old Romanian literature and folklore there (1968–1972). Pop was a recipient of the Herder Prize in 1967, also given to that year to Polish composer Witold Lutosławski, and Slovak sculptor Vladimír Kompánek.

In 1975 he retired on pension, leaving his position as Consultant Professor at the Department of Ethnology and Folklore, University of Bucharest.

He held the offices as President of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (1971), as well as other numerous foreign scientific societies. He was visiting professor at major universities in Marburg, Germany, Berkeley and Ann Arbor (USA) and Paris, France.

He died in Bucharest on October 8, 2000.

Bibliography

  • Dicţionarul etnologilor români, vol. II, Iordan Datcu, Ed. Saeculum IO, Bucureşti, 1998, pag. 161.



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