Oskar Seyffert (19 February 1862,
Dresden
Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label= Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth ...
– 22 February 1940, Dresden) was a German
art professor at the ''Königliche
Kunstgewerbeschule
A Kunstgewerbeschule (English: ''School of Arts and Crafts'' or S''chool of Applied Arts'') was a type of vocational arts school that existed in German-speaking countries from the mid-19th century. The term Werkkunstschule was also used for thes ...
'' ("Royal Art and Vocational School") in the
Kingdom of Saxony
The Kingdom of Saxony (german: Königreich Sachsen), lasting from 1806 to 1918, was an independent member of a number of historical confederacies in Napoleonic through post-Napoleonic Germany. The kingdom was formed from the Electorate of Saxo ...
.
As a
folklorist, Seyffert was the founder and chairman of the ''
Verein für Sächsische Volkskunde'', from which Dresden's ''
Museum für Sächsische Volkskunst and Puppentheatersammlung'' developed. Between 1927 and 1949 this museum was known as the ''Oskar-Seyffert-Museum''. A street in Dresden-
Gittersee is also named after Seyffert
.
1862 births
1940 deaths
Writers from Dresden
German male writers
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