Stith Thompson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Stith Thompson

American folklorist

Date of Birth: 07-Mar-1885

Place of Birth: Bloomfield, Kentucky, United States

Date of Death: 10-Jan-1976

Profession: anthropologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Stith Thompson

  • Stith Thompson (March 7, 1885 – January 10, 1976) was an American scholar of folklore.
  • He is the "Thompson" of the Aarne–Thompson classification system, which indexes certain folktales by their structure and assigns them AT numbers.
  • He also developed an alpha-decimal motif-index system (A~Z followed by numeral) for cataloging individual motifs.

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