KÜHNAU, Richard. Branitz near Cottbus 10.2.1858 — Cottbus 18.5.1930. German Indologist and Folklorist. Teacher in Breslau. Son of a gardener, educated at Damsdorf (Silesia), then Gymnasium in Breslau. In 1878-85 studies of classical philology, linguistics and Indology (Stenzler & Hillebrandt) at Breslau. Ph.D. 1885 Breslau. Taught at gymnasiums in Kempten, Patschkau and from 1908 Breslau (Gymnasium Professor there). His early works on Indology were often mentioned (there were not many specialists of metrics), but later on he only seems to have worked on Silesian folklore. In later years often ill.
Publications: Diss. De Tristubh-jagatica metrorum Indicorum gente quaestio rhytmica et historica. 70 p. Vratislaviae 1885; whole work: Die Triṣṭubh-Jagatī Familie. 16+272 p. Göttingen 1886.
– Rhytmus und Indische Metrik. Eine Entgegnung. 24+86 p. Halle 1887? (on Oldenberg in DLZ 1887 & Jacobi in GGA 1886, cf. Jacobi in GGA 1887, 520ff.).
– “Metrische Sammlungen aus Stenzlers Nachlass”, ZDMG 44, 1890, 1-82.
– Several collections of Silesian folk tales and folklore publ. in 1901-29.
Sources: Vita in diss.; D.L.K. 12, 1890 (no longer in 13, 1891); stray notes in Internet; *E. Gorząd-Biskup, Der Sagenforscher Richard Kühnau (1858-1930). 362 p. Lp. 2022; German Wikipedia briefly.
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