Kurt Ranke, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Kurt Ranke

German ethnologist

Date of Birth: 14-Apr-1908

Place of Birth: Blankenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Date of Death: 06-Jun-1985

Profession: historian, university teacher, anthropologist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Kurt Ranke (born April 14, 1908 in Blankenburg am Harz; died June 6, 1985 in Stadensen) was a German ethnologist, Germanist, and folklorist.
He helped introduce functional psychological dimensions to folklore genre theory.
He also started the work on the Encyclopedia of the Folktale.