Stith Thompson
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1885 – 1976
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Who was Stith Thompson?
Stith Thompson was an American scholar of folklore. He is the "Thompson" of the Aarne-Thompson classification system, which indexes certain folktales by their structure and assigns them AT numbers. He also developed an alpha-decimal motif-index system for cataloging individual motifs.
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- Born
- Mar 7, 1885
Bloomfield - Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- PhD, Harvard University
English Studies
(1912 - 1914) - University of California, Berkeley
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
- PhD, Harvard University
- Lived in
- Columbus
( - 1976/01/13)
- Columbus
- Died
- Jan 13, 1976
Columbus
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on July 23, 2013
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