Karla Absolonová-Bufková
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7 February 1855
- Writer
- ethnographer
- folklorist
Karla Absolonová-Bufková | |
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| Born | Karolina Anna Maximiliana Wankelová 7 February 1855 Blansko, Moravia, Austrian Empire |
| Died | 29 November 1941 (aged 86) |
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| Language | Czech |
| Notable works | Z Ječmínkovy říše: moravské povídky a pověsti (1897) |
| Spouse |
Vilibald Absolon
(m. 1872; died 1882)Eduard Bufka (m. 1887) |
| Children | 3, including Karel Absolon Vladimír Jindřich Bufka |
| Relatives | Jindřich Wankel (father) Lucie Bakešová (sister) |
Karla Anna Maximiliana Absolonová-Bufková (née Wankelová; 7 February 1855 – 29 November 1941) was a Czech writer, ethnographer and folklorist. Absolonová-Bufková wrote children's books and plays, and collected Moravian customs, folktales, legends and Moravian folk music.
Karolina Anna Maximiliana Wankelová was born on 7 February 1855 in Blansko, Moravia (present-day Czech Republic) to Jindřich Wankel and Eliška Wanklová (née Šímová).[1][2][3][4][5] Absolonová-Bufková's father was a palaeontologist and archaeologist known as the "father of Moravian archaeology" and her mother was an ethnographer and national revivalist.[4][1][5] The second of four sisters, Absolonová-Bufková was the younger sister of Lucie Bakešová, an ethnographer and social worker and was the older sister of Madlena Wanklová [cs], an ethnographer and feminist, and Vlasta Havelková, an ethnographer and curator.[4][1][2][5]
Absolonová-Bufková attended municipal school in Blansko, before studying at The Higher Girls' School in Prague.[2] When Absolonová-Bufková was a child, her father was a friend of the painter Josef Mánes. Mánes would stay with in the family home and painted a portrait of her dressed in national costume when she was aged 12.[4]
Career
Alongside writing children's books and plays, Absolonová-Bufková was an ethnographer and folklorist.[6][7] She collected Moravian customs, folktales, legends and music and was particularly interested in the ornamentation of folk objects.[8] She initially published articles about her work in women's magazines.[1][9] She then published her collected Moravian legends in the book Z Ječmínkovy říše: moravské povídky a pověsti (1897),[1] and recorded the legend of Býčí skála Cave.[10] With her sisters, Absolonová-Bufková prepared ethnographic exhibitions in Olomouc (1885) and Prague (1895).[1]
Absolonová-Bufková was a member of the Museum Association in Olomouc and the women's singing group the Academic Society Žerotín. She was also active in the women's movement with her sisters.[1]
Personal life
On 4 November 1872, Absolonová-Bufková married Vilibald Absolon (died 1882), a physician.[2] Absolonová-Bufková and Absolon had two children Karel Absolon, a palaeontologist and naturalist[11] and Olga Stránská-Absolonová, a writer and suffragist.[12][13] The family lived in Boskovice, South Moravia.
In 1887, Absolonová-Bufková married Eduard Bufka, a clerk and banker.[2][4] Absolonová-Bufková and Bufka had one son Vladimír Jindřich Bufka, a chemist and photographer.[14][11]
Absolonová-Bufková died on 29 November 1941 in Prague aged 86.[1][2]
