!!!Bünker, Johann Reinhold
b. Seebach (municipality of Spittal an der Drau, Carinthia), April 25, 1863,
d. Sopron, Hungary (then Oedenburg), Nov. 13, 1914, folklorist.
Curator of the municipal museum of Sopron; collected contemporary
popular poetry from Burgenland, especially the so-called Heanzen;
Research on types of houses and village lands.
!Works
Farces, legends and fairy tales in dialect, 1906; Was mir der
alte Mann erzaehlte, 1929 (fairy tales from Burgenland.).
!Literature
L. Schmidt, Die J. R. B.-Smlg. zur Sachvolkskunde des
mittleren Bgld., 1955; L. Schmidt, J. R. B. und die Erforschung des
Volkserzaehlgutes im Bgld., 1979; O. Buenker, J. R. B. - Sein Leben
fuer die Volkskunde, 1982.
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