Franz Beranek and his activities in Slovakia

Tomáš Kubisa

doi:10.46284/mkd.2020.8.2.5

Abstract

This paper deals with the research of Prof Franz Josef Beranek focused on the so called “Habans”, a social religious group that settled in western Slovakia. This research is reconstructed according to the so called German Archive, which forms a part of the scientific collections of the Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. The first part is focused on the life of Franz Beranek and his research on the Haban community, including the history, the linguistic situation, and comparisons to other Anabaptist groups. The second part deals with the procedure of cataloguing the archive and its history, structure, and issues.

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Franz Josef Beranek is not one of the leading names in the world of academia and is not very well known at the other end of the moral spectrum, as a Nazi academic, his work has gained a permanent place in German linguistics and, as I will point out in this article, in Slovak ethnology
Franz Beranek and his activities in Slovakia This paper deals with the research of Prof Franz Josef Beranek focused on the so called “Habans”, a social religious group that settled in western Slovakia
If we look at the efforts of Franz Beranek to collect and create a dialectological atlas of German enclaves and if we understand this as an experiment, I must say that it failed

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Tomáš Kubisa

Franz Beranek and his activities in Slovakia This paper deals with the research of Prof Franz Josef Beranek focused on the so called “Habans”, a social religious group that settled in western Slovakia. Beranek urged for contact to be made with the Anabaptist communities, because in the letter of 1932 the following answer is given: Addressing the brothers in Canada would make no sense, because I know that brothers are very secretive unless they feel special religious interests or historical research Zuzana Panczová, PhD, in her research on an ethnic group of German lumberjacks in the Little Carpathians called Huncokari by the majority, processed thirty archival units from the section Slowakische Volkserzählungen (Slovak Folk Tales), dated 1930–1932 It emerged that these sources were directly linked to the research of German enclaves, which German ethnographers had been actively interested in, and this research had later been subordinated to the political objectives of the Third Reich.. This is an electronic cataloguing scheme that can be changed (or supplemented) with continued cataloguing, as it is not yet fully known what the fund contains

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