Hoefer, Edmund: Wie das Volk sprichtThe work reprinted here is not a collection of proverbs or sayings in the usual sense. Instead the now almost forgotten writer Edmund Hoefer (1819-1882) has brought together an impressive collection of 2093 wellerisms which remains a standard reference work for this type of expression. Wellerisms are popular expressions in three parts, as in “Filthy lucre,” as the boy said when he picked up a penny from the mud. Hoefer collected some of these himself from oral traditions. He quotes most of these ironically amusing texts in dialect and includes risqué and even obscene examples. This thoroughly academically researched and also very popular book went through ten editions between 1855 and 1898. During this time Hoefer was continually expanding his collection so that the original 524 examples grew to over tow thousand. In a new introduction Wolfgang Mieder tells the story of Hoefer’s life and explains the history and significance of this wonderful work on popular speech. This introduction also contains a detailed bibliography on Hoefer, on the ten editions of the book and on wellerisms in general. The result is an academically edited reprint of a fascinating and valuable collection which will make many parodies of proverbs available once again to researchers and other interested readers. | |
| Monograph | |
| Wie das Volk spricht | |
| Hoefer, Edmund | |
| 1995 | |
| Olms | |
| Hildesheim [u.a.] | |
| PPN521378249 | |
| 276 | |
| Germanistik/Neuzeit Sprichwort | |
| http://www.olmsonline.de/purl?PPN521378249 | |
