!!!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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