Inger Margrethe Boberg, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Danish folklorist
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Place of Birth: Vordingborg, Region Zealand, Denmark
About Inger Margrethe Boberg
- Inger Margrethe Boberg (July 23, 1900 – May 9, 1957) was a Danish folklore researcher and writer.
- She studied philology at the University of Copenhagen and received her Master's degree in 1925.
- In 1927, she stayed at Lund University with the folklore professor Carl Wilhelm von Sydow.
- In 1934, she obtained the Dr.
- Phil.
- degree in folkloristics as the first woman in Denmark.
- From 1932 to her death, she was archivist at the Danish Folklore archive (Dansk Folkemindesamling).
- However, during many years, she had to occasionally take temporary jobs as a school teacher in order to provide a living for herself.
- Not until 1952, when she had a long-established name in international folkloristics, she obtained a steady position. In 1945, she received the Tagea Brandt Rejselegat.
- The prize enabled her to embark on a study trip to the U.S., where she worked with Stith Thompson and co-edited his Motif-Index of Folk-Literature.
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