!!!Geramb, Viktor
b. Deutschlandsberg (Styria), March 24, 1884, d. Graz
(Styria), Jan. 8, 1958, ethnologist; founder of the Department of
Ethnology at the Joanneum in 1913; was head of department until 1949,
1933-1934 foundation of the Association for the Preservation of Styria
(Steirisches Heimatwerk); from 1931-1939 and 1949-1954 ethnology
teacher at the University of Graz (founder of the first chair of
ethnology in Austria after World War II). Forced to retire in 1939.
Active at the St. Martin Institute for Adult Education near Graz
(Steirisches Volksbildungwerk St. Martin b. Graz), and in the
fatherland preservation movement ("Deutscher Schulverein Suedmark").
!Works
Von laendlicher Volksbildungsarbeit, 1922; Deutsches Brauchtum
in Oesterreich, 1924; Volkskunde der Steiermark, 1926; Steirisches
Trachtenbuch, 2 vols., 1932/1939 (with K. Mautner); Kinder- und
Hausmaerchen der Steiermark, 1942; Um Oesterreichs Volkskultur, 1946;
W. H. Riehl, Leben und Wirken, 1954.
!Literature
H. Koren, V. G. Ein Lebensbild, 1974; W. Jacobeit et
al. (publ.), Voelkische Wissenschaft, 1994.
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