Patru decenii de învăţământ filologic la Sibiu: preocupări de etnologie şi folclor
Four Decades of Philological Education in Sibiu: Concerns of Ethnology and Folklore

Summary/Abstract: As the title illustrates, the paper Four Decades of Philological Education in Sibiu represents a brief survey of the methods of studying the traditional culture and civilization within the learning process and academic research since the foundation of the Faculty of History and Philology in Sibiu, 40 years ago. The article evokes the outstanding personality of Gheorghe Pavelescu, a professor of folklore and ethnology, whose scientific prestige gave the University of Sibiu the opportunity to integrate its studies into the Romanian ethnological movement from the beginning. In parallel, the ethnology department of the Institute of Social Research developed research into traditional culture and civilization as did the Association of Folklore Researchers and Ethnographers in Sibiu County, founded in 1977. The Faculty of History and Philology took part in all the major and significant ethnological research projects organized in Mărginime, Valea Târnavelor and Ţara Oltului, mostly by professors who also coordinated the first printed syntheses starting in the 1970’s: Gheorghe Pavelescu, Cornel Irimie, Corneliu Bucur, Ilie Moise. The journals “Forschungen zur Volks – und Landeskunde”, “Transilvania” and “Studies of Ethnology” have had a major role in ethnological studies by periodically publishing the results of the investigations into traditional culture and civilization in southern Transylvania.

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