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Wolfgang Mieder (born 17 February 1944) is professor of German and folklore at the University of Vermont, in Burlington, Vermont, USA. He is a graduate of Olivet College (BA), the University of Michigan (MA), and Michigan State University (PhD). He has been a guest speaker at the University of Freiburg in Germany, the country where he was born. He is most well known as a scholar of paremiology, the study of proverbs. In addition to being a prolific author and editor on proverbs, he has made a distinct contribution by producing bibliography articles and volumes on several topics within paremiology. His annual list of recent proverb scholarship is published in each volume of ''Proverbium''. His most complete work in this area is his 2009 ''International Bibliography of Paremiology and Phraseology'', published in two volumes. Since 1984 he has been the editor of ''Proverbium: Yearbook of International Proverb Scholarship'', an annual journal published by the University of Vermont. He is editor of the ''Supplement Series to Proverbium'', a series of book on various facets of proverb studies. Each volume of ''Proverbium'' contains his annual list of recent proverb scholarship. He has published extensively in English and in German. He is the creator of the term anti-proverb, proverbs that are twisted from their original forms.〔p. xi, Charles Clay Doyle, Wolfgang Mieder, & Fred Shapiro. ''The Dictionary of Modern Proverbs''. New Haven: Yale University Press.〕 The term became more established with the publication of ''Twisted Wisdom: Modern Anti-Proverbs'' by Mieder and Anna T. Litovkina.〔Supplement volume to ''Proverbium''. University of Vermont.〕 His work also includes contributions to paremiography, the collecting and writing of proverbs. He has published a number of collections of proverbs, both topical〔''Yankee Wisdom: New England Proverbs'', New England Press, 1989.〕 and international.〔''The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs''. MJF Books, 1986.〕 Also, in every year's volume of ''Proverbium'', he publishes a list of proverb collections that have recently been published. He was honored by three festschrift publications on his 60th birthday. He was later honored with a festschrift volume to honor his 65th birthday.〔http://www.uvm.edu/~cas/?Page=News&storyID=13676〕〔Kevin McKenna, ed. 2009. ''The Proverbial 'Pied Piper': A Festschrift Volume of Essays in Honor of Wolfgang Mieder on the Occasion of His Sixty-Fifth Birthday.'' New York: Peter Lang. ISBN 978-1-4331-0489-3〕 He has also been recognized by biographical publications that focused on his scholarship.〔Lauhakangas, Outi. 2012. In honorem Wolfgang Mieder. In ''Program of the Sixth Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Proverbs, 4th to 11th November 2012, at Tavira, Portugal,'' Rui B. Soares and Outi Lauhakangas, eds., pp. 81-84. Tavira: Tipograpfia Tavirense.〕〔Jones, Amy. 2012. Wolfgang Mieder: Ein Fuβ in beiden Ländern. In ''Sprache als Heimat'', A. Jones, ed. ''Quasi. Middlebury () Zeitschrift'' 1:52-58.〕 In 2012, he was awarded a European folklore award, the ''European Folklore Prize'' 〔(Prize awarded )〕 In 2014, he was honored with an honorary doctorate by the University of Athens. In 2015, he was honored with "Doctor Honoris Causa" by the University of Bucharest.〔(Web link to University of Bucharest announcement ).〕 Though Mieder is originally from Germany, he has lived in Vermont for over 40 years, teaching at the University of Vermont. This long time residence is reflected in his scholarship, as he has published four books on proverbs of New England and Vermont.〔All published by Shelburne, Vermont: The New England Press. ''Talk Less and Say More: Vermont Proverbs'', 1986. ''As Sweet as Apple Cider: Vermont Expressions'', 1988. ''Yankee Wisdom: New England Proverbs'', 1989. ''As Strong as a Moose: New England Expressions'', 1997.〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wolfgang Mieder」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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