Mihály Fincicky
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Biography
Fincicky was born on 22 September 1842 in Čepeľ, Kingdom of Hungary (today part of Veľké Kapušany, Slovakia). He and his colleagues collected 339 folk-songs and 92 folk tales. The original version of this collection of Rusyn songs is unavailable. The collection has been published in Hungarian by Kisfaludy Társaság in 1870 as a part of the series Hazai, nem magyar ajkú népköltészet tára. After retiring, he translated 40 of the fairy tales collected by him. These were published in 1970.
Sources
- Sztripszky Hiador: Ethnographia, 1916.
- Berze Nagy János: Magyar népmesetípusok (I–II., Pécs, 1957).
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- Magyar néprajzi lexikon (1. kiadás ed.). Akadémiai Kiadó. 1979. ISBN 963-05-1287-4. II. kötet.