''Proverbium: Yearbook of International Proverb Scholarship'' is an
academic journal
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covering
paremiology, the study of
proverbs. Each volume includes articles on proverbs and proverbial expressions, book reviews, a bibliography of recent proverb scholarship, and a list of recently (re)published proverb collections.
Volumes 1:1984 to 4:1987 were issued by the
Ohio State University
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, in cooperation with the
University of Vermont and
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Volumes 5:1988 to 38:2021 were published exclusively by the University of Vermont. Volumes 1:1984 to 38:2021 of Proverbium were printed (). Many of the back issues of ''Proverbium'' are freely available online at
HathiTrust. All volumes are now available on ''Proverbium's'' archive on the journal's website.
Wolfgang Mieder, a distinguished professor of German and folklore at the University of Vermont, is the founding editor of ''Proverbium: Yearbook of International Scholarship'' and served as
editor-in-chief
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The highest-ranking editor of a publication may also be titled editor, managing ...
until 2021.
The annual yearbook series succeeded ''Proverbium: Bulletin d'Information sur les Recherches Parémiologiques'' (),'' which was established by
Matti Kuusi
Matti Akseli Kuusi (25 March 1914 in Helsinki – 16 January 1998 in Helsinki) was a Finnish folklorist, paremiographer and paremiologist. He wrote several books and a number of articles on Finnish folklore. He was the first to have introduc ...
and published occasionally by the
Finnish Literature Society between 1965 and 1975. The earlier Finnish series and the succeeding annual volume format have been compared and praised by the Nigerian scholar J.O.J. Nwachukwu-Agbada.
The journal is one of two ongoing proverb journals listed as a significant source for proverb studies in ''Proverbs: a Handbook'' (page 258). It is also listed as one of a list of "Proverb Resources" by the Cog Web site. Also, it is the only current journal listed by the University of Chicago's Defining Wisdom project in their Wisdom Literature Review. It is one of only two journals cited by the International Association of Paremiology on their website. ''Proverbium'' is indexed by the
MLA International Bibliography,
RILM Abstracts of Music International, and
Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies. Julia Sevilla Muñoz, editor of the journal ''Paremia'', has described it saying, "''Proverbium'' est devenu premier point de recontre et d'échange scientifique pour les vrais spécialistes en parémies." Two volumes of ''Proverbium'' were seen to be significant enough for a review in the journal ''
Fabula''.
[Neumann, Siegfried. ''Fabula'' Vol. 35, (Jan 1, 1994): 183-185.]
In addition to the journal itself, there has been a "Supplement Series" of volumes published by ''Proverbium''. Forty-four volumes have been published in this book series as of 2020.
From volume 39:2022 ''Proverbium'' is published by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Josip Juraj Strossmayer
University of Osijek, Croatia (). New volumes will be freely available online. The journal's website will give access to all parts of the journal from 1984 onward. The new chief editors are Melita Aleksa Varga (Osijek, Croatia) and Hrisztalina Hrisztova-Gotthardt (Bottmingen, Switzerland).
External links
Proverbium websiteProverbium archive
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Citations
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