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Alexander Haggerty Krappe

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American folklorist and author (1894-1947)

United StatesWritersLived 1894 to 1947 · aged 53
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Alexander Haggerty Krappe was a folklorist and writer. Along with Francis Peabody Magoun, he was the first translator of folktales collected by the Brothers Grimm into the English language.

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Alexander Haggerty Krappe was a folklorist and writer. Along with Francis Peabody Magoun, he was the first translator of folktales collected by the Brothers Grimm into the English language. He was also a linguist, teacher, translator of scientific and other materials, a Roman philologist, a comparative mythologist, a classicist and Scandinavianist.

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Lived 1894 to 1947 · aged 53
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