Walter Oskar Hackman (27 July 1868 in
Vyborg
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- 2 August 1922 in
Helsinki
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) was a
Swedish-speaking Finn
The Swedish-speaking population of Finland (whose members are called by many names; fi, suomenruotsalainen) can be used as an attribute., group=Note—see below; sv, finlandssvenskar; fi, suomenruotsalaiset) is a linguistic minority in Finl ...
ish
folklorist
Folklore studies, less often known as folkloristics, and occasionally tradition studies or folk life studies in the United Kingdom, is the branch of anthropology devoted to the study of folklore. This term, along with its synonyms, gained currenc ...
.
Life
Walter Oskar Hackman was born on 27 July 1868 in Vyborg, the third son of Woldemar Hackman (1831-1871) and Emilie Hackman (1841-1922), sister of
Julius Krohn
Julius Leopold Fredrik Krohn (19 April 1835 – 28 August 1888) was a Finnish folk poetry researcher, professor of Finnish literature, poet, hymn writer, translator and journalist. He was born in Viipuri and was of Baltic German origin. Krohn ...
.
Due to his German roots - the Hackman family came from Bremen, from where his great-grandfather Johan Friedrich Hackman the Elder (1755-1807) emigrated to Vyborg in 1777
– he received his schooling in
Leipzig
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. In 1887 he matriculated at the University of Helsinki, studied there with
Kaarle Krohn
Kaarle Krohn (10 May 1863 – 19 July 1933) was a Finnish folklorist, professor and developer of the geographic-historic method of folklore research. He was born into the influential Krohn family of Helsinki. Krohn is best known outside of Finlan ...
and received his doctorate in 1904 on The
Polyphemus
Polyphemus (; grc-gre, Πολύφημος, Polyphēmos, ; la, Polyphēmus ) is the one-eyed giant son of Poseidon and Thoosa in Greek mythology, one of the Cyclopes described in Homer's ''Odyssey''. His name means "abounding in songs and le ...
Legend in folk tradition.
Together with Kaarle Krohn, Hackman assisted
Antti Aarne
Antti Amatus Aarne (December 5, 1867 in Pori – February 2, 1925 in Helsinki) was a Finnish folklorist.
Background
Antti was a student of Kaarle Krohn, the son of the folklorist Julius Krohn.
He further developed their historic-geographic ...
in compiling a type catalog of European fairy tales; so Hackman himself took over the numbers 1000 to 1199.
His main interest, however, was the Finnish-Swedish fairy tales: in 1911 he published his catalog of fairy tales of the Finnish Swedes and in 1917 and 1920 a volume Finlands svenska folkdiktning, in which he gave an overview of the fairy tale variants recorded by the Finnish Swedes, which he divided into 404 narrative types , with some deviations from Aarne's system. A catalog of types of mythical sagas begun by Hackman remained unfinished.
Oskar Hackman worked for the Swedish Literary Society from 1909 until his death and, after
Axel Olrik's death, from 1918 co-editor of the Folklore Fellows' Communications.
His two older brothers are archaeologist Alfred Leopold Frederik Hackman (1864–1942) and geologist Victor Axel Hackman (1866–1941)).
Works
* ''Die Polyphemsage in der Volksüberlieferung'', Helsinki 1904. ()
* ''Katalog der Märchen der finnländischen Schweden mit Zugrundelegung von Aarnes Verzeichnis der Märchentypen'',
FFC 6, Leipzig 1911
* ''Finlands svenska folkdiktning'', 2 Bände, Helsinki 1917/20
Citations
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Finnish folklorists
1868 births
1922 deaths
People from the Grand Duchy of Finland