Az ismeretlen Kriza János és ismeretlen gyűjtőtársai
The Unknown János Kriza and His Unknown Collector Colleagues

Summary/Abstract: The science of folklore represents the Unitarian bishop János Kriza (1811–1875) as the most canonic fi gure of the 19th century folk collection movement. Nevertheless, we have only superfi cial knowledge about the methodology of his collection, the composition of his collector-network, the identity of the collectors, and the motivations, and the background of the collection. This paper shows that the history of the 19th century Hungarian folkloric science is void of basic research and that the unrevealed character of the sources it is mostly unknown. The existing available factual observations are mainly accidental because few of them rely on knowledge of manuscript sources. For this reason most of the statements considering the 19th century folkloric collections have to be handled with reservation until the necessary research is done. This will require that besides the exploration of the primary folkloric sources, other sources needs to be explored such as historical, ecclesiastic and educational ones.

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